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Hostage
Genres
ComedyDramaFamily
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$119000
Runtime
97 min
Release Date
2014-12-04
Status
Released
Original Language
Czech
Vote Count
6
Vote Average
7.5
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Richard Labuda
Petr Achberger
Libuše Šafránková
Achbergerová
Milan Lasica
Achberger
Alexander Bárta
Achberger
Slávka Halčáková
Achbergerová
Ondřej Vetchý
Bašta
Lenka Janíková
Baštová
Miroslav Noga
Glanz
Robert Roth
Honza Kolář
Ondřej Malý
Reim
Milan Ondrík
Tomko
Petra Vajdová
Vaľová
Richard Autner
Preiss
Tamara Fischer
Helena Kraščičová
Szidi Tobias
Vernerová
Ady Hajdu
Jana Oľhová
Christopher Michael Paulíny
Ferko Glanz
Gregor Hraška
Jaro Bašta
Tomáš Florek
Janko Kolár
Viktor Stupka
Edo Ďžudák
Matylda Homolová
Alenka
Erik Bekeš
Juro Bašta
Martin Hrevuš
Tomáš Samko
Adam Praskač
David Pašš
Karolko
Zita Furková
Zuzana Konečná
Šišočáková
Jan Mazák
Marián Labuda
Michal Koleják
Martin Kochan
Michal Rosík
Mária Breinerová
Glanzová
Lenka Janková
Baštová
Ingrid Ištóková
Kraščičová
Vladimír Zboroň
Kraščič
Mária Landová
Kolárová
Martin Škoda
Paľo Kolár
Mária Čubová
Žofka Baštová
Peter Pišťanek
Bataj
Michal Bednár
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