Manadragora - Miroslav Caslavka, David Svec - DVD | moviebizz.com
featuring rare coming of age films from around the world.
SYNOPSIS: Fifteen-year-old Marek leaves his dreary
small-town life for the beautiful but treacherous streets of Prague, a city
where everything can be had for a price. He is quickly lured by a greasy
pimp into selling his body to the many tourists who flock to the city for its
cathedrals, castles and tender male flesh. Emboldened by his clear
marketability (he's gorgeous), Marek and his handsome streetwise buddy David
decide to enter the teen flesh trade on their own. But kinky johns,
all-too-available drugs and their own self-destructive natures propel them
instead into a hellish world in which the instinct to survive is their only
hope.
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Directed by leading Czech
filmmaker Wiktor Grodecki, Mandragora is based on true stories with a
mostly non-professional cast (including actual prostitutes) and shot on
the streets, train stations and sex clubs of Prague. This story is
about Marek, a soon-to-be 16-year-old who reluctantly gets involved in
the teen prostitution ring around the city of Prague, but later seems to
enjoy it. Of course, like any story and just like life, it's all
about "balance": With the "good" of prostituting yourself, there is
always the "bad" part lurking nearby. It's the bad that doesn't
sit well with Marek and his buddies, but it makes for a pretty good
movie. Another interesting thing about Mandragora is the fantastic
use of various kinds of music to fit certain scenes...it will
suck you into the story and have you riveted to your seat.
There was a 126 minute
edited version
released a number of years ago, but here, as usual, we present the full
133-minute UNCUT version, remastered on DVD. It is interesting to
note that Marek is played by 15-year-old Miroslav Caslavka, who never acted
again after Mandragora (and was probably teased quite a lot at school
after this movie), can be seen frequently in the credits of some Hollywood films
as a member of the production crew.
POPULARITY:
RATING:
FORMAT:
(learn more about region coding)
* This DVD will play WORLDWIDE. This is not a DVD-R.
VIEW MULTIMEDIA:
STARRING:
Miroslav Caslavka,
David Svec,
Pavel Skripal, Kostas Zerdolaglu.
AVAILABILITY:
In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH:
133
minutes.
LANGUAGE:
Czech, with ENGLISH SUBTITLES; and English with
CZECH SUBTITLES.
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
1.33:1 (4:3 Letterboxed); 2.0 Stereo;
1 disc; Chapter
selection; Uncut.
VIEWER
DISCRETION: Moderate to frequent nudity, sexual
scenes, sexual innuendo, violence, coarse
language.
PICTURE QUALITY: Excellent picture quality. (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
Czech Republic (1997).
ALSO KNOWN AS:
DATE ADDED TO OUR
LIBRARY: August 24, 2007.
YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY:
Quality
products
Login Status
