Mandragora 1997 NTSC torrent

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Movies : Drama : DVD Full : Czech
Mandragora
Drama, Gay Interest, Male Prostitution

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119608/

Marek is a 16-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and becomes a male prostitute. He is a bit smarter that his colleagues and teams up with a friend, David, in order to go after bigger scores--to cash in and get out. They manage to stash away a bit of money, but when it comes time to return home, Marek loses his nerve and is soon back in the city.

Release Date: 23 October 1997 (Czech Republic)

Director: Wiktor Grodecki
Starring: Mirek Caslavka, David Svec, Pavel Skripal, Miroslav Breu, Karel Polisensky, Kostas Zedraloglu, Richard Toth, Jiri Kodes

# Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
# Language: Czech (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
One scene language is English and subtitle is Czech
# Subtitles: English Hard coded
# Region: All Regions
# Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
# Number of discs: 1
# Rating: NR
# Studio: Water Bearer Films
# DVD Release Date: March 28, 2000
# Run Time: 126 minutes

NOTE TRAILERS AUTO PLAY BEFORE MOVIE, You can go directly to the menu and start movie play.


52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT FILM WITH A TRULY AWFUL DVD TREATMENT!, July 4, 2001
By Claude Bouchard Jr. "Eurodancemix" (Frederick, MD) -

What "Pusher" did for the drug trade, "Mandragora" does for teenage male prostitution. It's an incredibly brutal and honest look at the life of a Czechoslovakian boy who runs away to Prague in order to escape an unhappy home life in a small town. Little does he know he had it very good at home. The film is incredibly graphic on all counts, but needs to be to make its point. This is not a film for children or the squeamish as there is full-frontal nudity, depictions of graphic sex, extreme violence, sadism, drug use, self-mutilation and suicide. It's an excellent film, but definitely not a happy film. In and of itself, this film rates 5 stars.

Now let's discuss the DVD itself. It's terrible. The studio that released this film, Water Bearer, apparently did so without love or care for this film, just the possibility of making some fast money. The print used for this transfer skips in several places (this is really unacceptable as the film is only four years old as of this writing), and could use some cleaning up and remastering (too many scratches and artifacts). Some darker scenes suffer from some very visible digital transfer problems. The sound is poor through some passages, resulting in background bass "thumps" whenever the characters speak. The English subtitles are riddled with blatant spelling errors, typographical errors and very poor grammar, most likely translated by someone for whom English is not a first language. A few scenes in English are subtitled in Czech, for some unknown reason. And, although this doesn't bear on the film directly, there are no extras. You either view the film in its entirety, select one of seven incredibly long chapter stops which will have you hitting the fast-forward button in frustration, and that's it! No interviews, no commentaries, no trailers, no talent files, nothing.