Bene Cumb Generally, I am not into documentaries, not against them, really, but I choose to follow the topics that a) I like and know b) are totally unknown to me. Telo bez duse falls into the latter category as I have never been even approached by a man offering to sell himself, but several awards and accolades promised to obtain a thorough picture of what was going on in a 1990ies post-socialist country.And yes, I am generally satisfied with the result, although the thoughts and comprehensions of the boys are more profound and versatile than those of the man who irresponsibly and stonily victimised the boys who were even often neither gays nor bisexuals... Thus, there is even no frivolous glamour, but real lowlife, lots of violence, drugs, abuse, poverty, diseases. The filmmaker's daily employment in performing autopsies provides the film with macabre undertones, as in other circumstances, his thoughts and actions would be just odd and sometimes darkly humorous, but as for his "creations" with underage hetero boys (being a family man with children!), he is just plain and loathsome.The film in question could also be a warning film for teens who sometimes think that prostitution is a quick money and plentiful entertainment.

didier-20 Aside from the jaw dropping sensationalism of this film making, which left me speechless at several points......Once i came back to earth i feel it has to be said that this is "auteur" film masquerading as documentary. As documentary film, it remains irresponsible. The film maker went on to make three films about this subject, and it's more about the film makers own obsessions than anything else. Was it a film about a period in a drug crazed pornographer's monstrous life and how he moved from beyond horror and into the absurdly grotesque.(dark, dark,black comedy) ?? As documentary, i thought this was it's most successful subject. To say it is a film about under age male prostitution in Praha is incorrect. Only part of that reality is ever revealed, so much of what ought to have been explored simply remains absent.To have done all these boys honour & justice, he would have had to expand the true context of their lives and humanised them as much as possible. In the very least abandon a sensationalist and mythologising approach in favour of level headed factual survey. He did not. To say it is a film about pornography in Praha is also incorrect. Again only a small part of that reality is seen, and most left out. No other geographical or social context was explored, no interviews with police or other pornographers. No context of what life is like now in the city of Praha, concerning these matters. To this extent you can charge the director with exploitation of these boys as much as anybody else. This film is a pornographic documentary about sex, drugs and death which happens to be set in Praha . The audience manipulation is phenomenal. I really had to re-check in myself a number of realities after it had finished. Be critical and don't just take this highly disturbing film at face value.

thinker1691 Wiktor Grodecki's " Body Without Soul " invites the courageous to the prequel of his sensationally dark film, Mandragora. This graphic film depicts the appalling process by which young prepubescence and teen age boys in Prague are so skillfully lured into the eviscerated life of a male prostitute. Candid interviews with both predators and victims alike allow the visitor to observe how deftly and skillfully an unsympathetic pimp/promoter/and oftentimes executioner, can entice, convince and then blackmail his victims into becoming porn stars. Systemic of a life of poverty, the boys recall how easily they and their peers became street hustlers. Converging at a well-known swimming pool in the city, unsuspecting victims are attracted by the promise of money, and too often find themselves defending the tragic lifestyle of the walking dead. This film is not for the faint-hearted, but rather for those wishing to obtain the remnants of humanity on the verge of self-destruction.

chris miller not for the timid. probably the most brutal documentary i've ever seen. it's about boy prostitutes in prague. they make their living by turning tricks and acting in gay porn films. we meet several of the kids and one of the most popular porn gay porn directors in the region. this film truly is not for the faint of heart. it's tough to get through, but brutality and depravity are a part of life and that's easy to forget when you have a frig full of food and live in a city of 60,000. artistically the film was shot well, with a score that works well, but is probably over-used. the structure really does a good job of juxtaposing certain images and motifs to rather shocking results. B.