''Mandragora'' is a 1997 film by
Polish
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director
Wiktor Grodecki
Wiktor Grodecki (born 25 February 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer known for ''Mandragora'' (five main prizes at Geneva "Stars Of Tomorrow" film festival in Switzerland in 1997 and Audience Choice Award at Palm S ...
about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to
Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.
The film is the last of Grodecki's trilogy of films about
male prostitution, the other two being ''
Not Angels But Angels'' and ''
Body Without Soul
''Body Without Soul'' ( cs, Tělo bez duše) is a 1996 documentary film about a number of 14- to 17-year-old boys in Prague working as Male prostitution, prostitutes. The creator of the documentary, Wiktor Grodecki, interviews the boys about thei ...
''.
Cast
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Miroslav Čáslavka as Marek
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David Švec as David
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Pavel Skřípal as Honza
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Kostas Zerdolaglu as Krysa
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Miroslav Breu as Libor
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Jiří Kodeš as Father
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Karel Polišenský
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as Sascha
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Richard Toth
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as George
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Jiří Pachman Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE''), the Czech is a masculine given name, equivalent to English George, may refer to:
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*Jiří Antonín Benda
*Jiří Baborovský
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*Jiří ...
as Pan Franta
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Pavel Kočí
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as Rudy
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Jitka Smutná Jitka is a Czech female given name. It is nickname of Hebrew name Judith, meaning ''He will be praised'' or ''woman of Judea''. The old Czech form is Jutka, derived the German name Jutta. Name day celebrate 5 December. Pronounced "YIT-kah".
Famou ...
as Krysa's Wife
Other cast members; Jiří Kaftan, Břetislav Farský, Michell Turchetti and Tomáš Petrák
References
External links
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1997 films
Czech LGBT-related films
1990s Czech-language films
1997 drama films
Czech thriller films
LGBT-related drama films
1997 LGBT-related films
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