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Hostage (2014) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 4, 2014

Original Title:
Jak jsme hráli čáru

Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Family

Production Companies:
ALEF Film & Media Group
Filmové ateliéry
Filmpark Production
RTVS
UN Film
Česká televize

Production Countries:
Czech Republic | Slovakia

Ratings / Certifications:
CZ: 15+ 

Runtime: 97

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Camera Operator:
Lukáš Teren
Richard Krivda

Costume Design:
Simona Vachálková

Director:
Juraj Nvota

Director of Photography:
Diviš Marek

Editor:
Alois Fišárek

First Assistant Director:
Katarína Kurtíková

Idea:
Peter Pišťanek
Marian Urban

Makeup Artist:
Zuzana Paulini

Music:
Ľubica Malachovská Čekovská

Set Designer:
Pavol Andraško
Miriam Struhárová

Sound:
Peter Gajdoš

Writer:
Peter Pišťanek
Marian Urban

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