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HOSTAGE

  • Language Slovak, Czech
  • Subtitles English
  • Runtime 110 Min
  • Country Slovakia, Czech Republic
  • Filming Locations Slovakia, Austria
  • World Sales ALEF FILM & MEDIA
  • Distribution Barracuda Movie (Slovakia), CinemArt (Czech Republic)
  • Release year 2014

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  • Theme Song - ŠŤASTIE (Happiness) 2015
    Theme Song - ŠŤASTIE (Happiness) 2015

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Annotation

A family film with the artmovie’s ambitions. The world of first strong friendships, first loves, fights of children gangs, naïve ideas and great expectations is confronted with the reality of the “grown-up” world.  The first touches with a hard-to-understand, bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, a labyrinth of strange words, acts, expressions, and phenomena incomprehensible to a kid, such as politics, emigration as well as betrayal and death in a com/drama for both kids and their parents.

Tragicomic story about the world of children hereos - particulary 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 - which will have surprising, desperate, and absurd ending.

Find out more about the film at www.rukojemnik.sk/en

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

  • Czech Lion 2014 - nominee Best Actor in Leading Role - Milan Lasica
  • Czech Lion 2014 - nominee Best Actor in Supporting Role - Ondřej Vetchý
  • Czech Lion 2014 - nominee Best Film Editing - Alois Fišárek
  • Czech Lion 2014 - nominee Best Production Design - Pavol Andraško
  • Finale Plzen 2015 - nominee Best Czech Film
  • IFF Zline 2015 - nominee International competition of feature films for youth
  • CINEKID AMSTERDAM 2015 Invitation to Participate in the Competition
  • Story Peter Pišťanek, Marian Urban
  • Scriptwriters Peter Pišťanek, Marian Urban
  • Director Juraj Nvota
  • Director of Photography Diviš Marek
  • Editor Alois Fišárek
  • Sound Peter Gajdoš, Petr Lenděl
  • Music Composer Ľubica Malachovská Čekovská
  • Production Designer Pavol Andraško
  • Supervising Make-up Artist Juraj Steiner
  • Key Make-Up Artist Zuzana Paulini
  • Line Producer Jana Horáková
  • Producer Marian Urban
  • Co-producers Filmové ateliéry, Czech Television, Radio and Television of Slovakia, UN FILM, Filmpark production

CAST

  • Peter Richard Labuda
  • Grandfather Milan Lasica
  • Grandmother Libuše Šafránková
  • CHRISTOPHER PAULÍNY, TAMARA FISCHER, TOMÁŠ FLOREK, GREGOR HRAŠKA, ERIK BEKEŠ, SZIDI TOBIAS, ALEXANDER BÁRTA, SLÁVKA HALČÁKOVÁ, MIRO NOGA, ROBO ROTH, ONDŘEJ MALÝ, MILAN ONDRÍK, ADY HAJDU, ZITA FURKOVÁ