30th EUFF - Rukojemník (Hostage)
1:00 PM on Saturday Dec. 5th, 2015
ByTowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St
1:00 PM on Saturday Dec. 5th, 2015
ByTowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St
Slovakia, 2014, 97 minutes
Slovak, Czech, with English sub-titles
A tragicomic story about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local Communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, thanks to the parents who emigrated to the West, few years before the legendary period of "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. A family film including not only camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naïve ideas, confronted with reality of "adult" world. First contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.
Slovak, Czech, with English sub-titles
A tragicomic story about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local Communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, thanks to the parents who emigrated to the West, few years before the legendary period of "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. A family film including not only camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naïve ideas, confronted with reality of "adult" world. First contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.