Slovakian documentarian-turned-fiction filmmaker and producer Ivan Ostrochovský enjoyed his international breakthrough with his fiction feature debut, Koza [+lee también:
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From a hybrid of fiction and documentary in Koza, Ostrochovský is now taking on a period fiction film set during the period of normalisation in Czechoslovakia. In 1980, two friends apply to study at a Roman Catholic seminary in order to escape the moral devastation of society in the communist regime. They soon discover that the seminary is controlled by Pacem im Terris, an organisation of clerics willingly collaborating with the regime. The director himself has revealed that Servants is a universal story about good and evil, not an observation of a life during normalisation. He also expects that the crime elements and the slightly controversial topic will attract a larger audience.

Servants is a co-production between Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ireland and Romania, and in 2015 participated in the KVIFF’s Pitch & Feedback, Connecting Cottbus and Arras Days, where the project won the CNC Award for Best Project. The Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Bratislava Self-Governing Region (Slovakia), the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, the Czech Film Fund, Eurimages and the Romanian National Film Center have supported the project.