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It\u2019s the early 1980s in Czechoslovakia. Two students arrive at the Catholic theological seminary in Bratislava. The Communist Party has set up the organisation Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) to oversee what is happening in the Church. Every clergyman, including both young men, has to make a choice \u2013 to either cooperate with the authorities of the totalitarian state, or to refuse to tarnish their faith and conscience.<\/p>\n

The director\u2019s chilling message here is that we all serve some ideology or other. Whether we are aware of it or not, various powers \u2013 politics, religion, wealth, poverty… \u2013 guide us and inevitably transform our values and attitudes. There can be hidden traps: even today, \u2018people are being scared into fear and uncertainty by the media, political parties, preachers, and intellectuals alike\u2019. 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