Mandragora | |
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Directed by | Wiktor Grodecki |
Written by | Wiktor Grodecki David Švec |
Starring | Miroslav Čáslavka David Švec Pavel Skřípal |
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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.
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]
Other cast members include; Jiří Kaftan, Břetislav Farský, Michell Turchetti, and Tomáš Petrák.
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Mandragora may refer to:
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