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Servants

5.4(21)20201h 21m2

Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.7M
Box office
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Language
Slovak
  • priest
  • black and white
  • seminary
  • communism
  • secret police
  • medical examination
  • 1980s
  • communist espionage
  • secret
  • central europe

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

Czech Republic, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew Directors/New Films9 Dec 2020
  • United KingdomGB

    • Digital / OTT1514 May 2021
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereMontreal Festival of New Film18 Oct 2020
  • BelgiumBE

    • PremiereGhent Film Festival24 Oct 2020
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Digital / OTT1 Apr 2021
    • Theatrical24 May 2021
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereSaint Jean De Luz Film Festival11 Oct 2020
    • Theatrical2 Jun 2021
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival24 Feb 2020
  • GreeceGR

    • PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival10 Nov 2020
  • IrelandIE

    • Digital / OTT1512 Nov 2020
  • MacaoMO

    • PremiereInternational Film Festival & Awards Macao4 Dec 2020
  • NetherlandsNL

    • PremiereCinecitta International Film Festival23 Oct 2020
  • PolandPL

    • PremiereInternational Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography20 Nov 2020
    • Theatrical5 Mar 2021

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Servants was released on 12 November 2020.

Audience reviews

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    SWITCH.

    8/22/2020

    6/10

    As a piece of filmmaking, 'Servants' is certainly impressive, filled with striking cinematography and flashes where we glimpse the strange, surreal world behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia. What is even more beguiling about the film is reminding one's self that this is set in 1980, the very recent past. The world we see feels captured in time, a vision of a post-war world rather than a more contemporary one. U…

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