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"Mandragora"
1997
Directed by Wiktor Grodecki

Mirek Caslavka stars as a young kid who spurns the workaday robotic lifestyle, continuing from the communist era, which has hung his father out to waste. From his drab origins he is drawn by economic liberties and flashy materialism to the toxic city of Prague, where everything can be had for a price. He is soon led into the world of male prostitution, teaming up with another boy (David Svec, the film's co-writer) as they try to survive in a world dominated by sex, drugs and teen porn. Czech with English subtitles.