Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Richard Labuda
Petr Achberger
Lead
Libuše Šafránková
Achbergerová
Milan Lasica
Achberger
Alexander Bárta
Achberger
Slávka Halčáková
Achbergerová
Ondřej Vetchý
Bašta
LJ
Lenka Janíková
Baštová
Miroslav Noga
Glanz
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Juraj Nvota's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Hostage is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
