Mandragora
Water Bearer Films-year-old Marek (Mirek Caslavka) leaves his dreary small-town life Prague, a city where everything can be had for a price. He is quickly lured by a greasy pimp into selling his body to the many tourists who flock to the city for its cathedrals, castles and tender male flesh. Emboldened by his clear marketability (hes gorgeous), Marek and his handsome streetwise buddy David decide to enter the teen flesh trade on their own. But kinky johns, all-too-available and their own self-destructive natures propel them instead into a hellish world in which the instinct to survive is their only hope.
Directed by leading Czech filmmaker Wiktor Grodecki, Mandragora is based on true stories with a mostly non-professional cast (including actual prostitutes) and shot on the streets, train stations and sex clubs of Prague.
The clip below is, unfortunately, not subtitled. The DVD includes English subtitles:
Reasons to Buy
- Wiktor Grodecki's greatest cinematic achievement!
- See beautiful young boys ravished by their life on the streets as prostitutes! Damn the people that use them!...and then check out their bodies.
- I guess jerking off to a Lukas Ridgeston film after seeing this would be wrong.
DVD Features
Features Not SpecifiedInformation
- Director: Wiktor Grodecki
- Producer: Miroslav Steinbach
- Writer: David Svec
- Writer: Wiktor Grodecki
- Length: 2 hrs. 15 mins.
- Rating: NR
- Released: Apr 25 2000
- Production Year: 1997
- TLA SKU: 12196
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC Code: 759259140035
- Catalog #: DV1116861
Reviews
5 Reviews for Mandragora
Write a ReviewReview by Raymond Murray
In-House Review - Jan 03 2012
Review by Amos Lassen
"MANDRAGORA"
Amos Lassen
"Mandragora" is one of two films I received from WaterBearer Films for review this week and it held me spellbound. It is a brutal and realistic look at male prostitution in Prague, Czec... Read More