Hostage
6.5
Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naive ideas are confronted with the reality of adult's world. The film is about the first contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and about how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.
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Cast
43 people
Richard Labuda
Petr Achberger
Known for
The Teacher
Libuše Šafránková
Achbergerová
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Kolya
Milan Lasica
Achberger
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Alexander Bárta
Achberger
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Slávka Halčáková
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Ondřej Vetchý
Bašta
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Kolya
Lenka Janíková
Baštová
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Miroslav Noga
Glanz
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Seven in One Fell Swoop
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Robert Roth
Honza Kolář
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Nina
Miracle
Ondřej Malý
Reim
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The Teacher
I, Olga Hepnarova
Milan Ondrík
Tomko
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Petra Vajdová
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Ordinácia v ružovej záhrade
Juraj Nvota Director · Peter Pišťanek Screenplay Marian Urban Screenplay
Worldwide gross $119K · First release December 4, 2014 · Produced in Slovakia, Czechia
Box office
Worldwide gross
$119,000
Production
ALEF Film & Media Group
Production
Česká televize
Production
Filmové ateliéry
Production
RTVS
Production
UN Film
Production
Filmpark Production
Production
Slovakia · Czechia
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Languages
Original title
Jak jsme hráli čáru
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech · Hungarian · Slovak
Release dates
Czechia · December 4, 2014
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
May 27, 2015 · Physical
Slovakia
January 8, 2015 · Theatrical
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