Mandragora (film)

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Mandragora
Directed by Wiktor Grodecki
Written by Wiktor Grodecki
David Švec
Starring Miroslav Čáslavka
David Švec
Pavel Skřípal
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Language Czech

Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki 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.

Contents

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 . [1]

Cast

Other cast members; Jiří Kaftan, Břetislav Farský, Michell Turchetti and Tomáš Petrák

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References

  1. Villiers, Nicholas de (2017). Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN   978-1-4529-5390-8.