Servants
Dramapriestblack and whiteseminarycommunismsecret policemedical examination1980scommunist espionagesecretcentral europe
A morally austere study of conscience and complicity under totalitarian surveillance, centered on two seminarians facing an impossible choice between faith and survival.
Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police.
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