Arriving between Pawel Pawlikowsi's Cold War and Limonov — the award garlanded second and eagerly anticipated third segments of the boxy-monochrome trilogy begun with Oscar winner Ida — Ivan Ostrochovsky's steely drama Servants somewhat bravely adopts a very similar approach in terms of style and editing.
An austere, tersely economic study of oppression and resistance set mainly in a Bratislava seminary over a decade before the breakup of Czechoslovakia, the Czech-Slovak-Romanian-Irish co-production secured its North America premiere at New York's prestigious New Directors / New Films before premiering in the Berlinale Forum.
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