Mandragora (1997)

Directed by

Wiktor Grodecki

Genre

drama film, thriller film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Czech Republic

Runtime

2h 13m

Rated

15+

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 15-year-old boy runs away from his distant father to Prague. He quickly falls into the city's drug and sex trade, which destroys his health and spirit.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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