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Not Angels But Angels | 
 enlarge | Director: Wiktor Grodecki
Actor: Wiktor Grodecki
Studio: Water Bearer
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $18.00
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 61829
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled
Languages: Czech (Original Language), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 80
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 759259140127
EAN: 0759259140127
ASIN: B00004YKRO
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Release Date: October 17, 2000
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Condition: Brand New and Still Factory Sealed (although the seal is coming apart at the top), Excellent Condition! Ships same day
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Product Description
Like no film you've ever seen, Not Angels But Angels is a chilling account of fragile youth caught in the grasp of Earth's oldest trade. Prague's economic boom and recently won political freedom have transformed that beautiful city into a new mecca for both Eastern and Western tourists searching for sex. Young men trying to live up to the standards of Western consumerism fall prey to the quick, easy money made from hustling. The young hustlers' disarming frankness and need to talk become the compelling engine that drives the film. They withhold nothing, telling their stories in gruesome and stripped bare detail.
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 Working Boys in Prague June 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Not Angels But Angels"
Working Boys in Prague
Amos Lassen
"Not Angels But Angels" is a documentary about hustlers in Prague and contains interviews with a procurer as well as with nineteen boys and young men between 14 to 19 who are prostitutes in Prague. Their turf is both the central train station and the clubs and their clients are mostly tourists. They tell us why they hustle and their first time, how much they charge, how they feel about the dangers involved including AIDS, their fears and where they think they will be in the future. They by and large lack education and sophistication. They are open about who they are and what they do and some of them will break your heart.
Documentaries give food for thought and we see Prague in its most basic as kids enter the world of prostitution and the film gives insight which reveals and touches the viewer. The boys need to be protected--from their own lack of education. Boys who are in command of themselves do not usually become prostitutes but lack of money can leaf to that. In Prague, boys need the money and so they enter the world's oldest profession---they do not seem to understand the reality of the situation.
The film lifts the curtain of the secrecy of prostitution and it does so in an excellent way.
 hustlers in prague July 29, 2002
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
this documet about hustlers in prague in 1994 is well done. in some parts, u woldn't believe how stupid can teenagers be. but if you have to choose between angels but not angels or body without soul, take the second one. it goes deeper into the problem. i also recomend movie mandragora, which is based on these two documents and real story about two hustlers in prague.
The Other Side of Prague November 20, 2001
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've been visiting Prague on a regular basis now and have found it to be a very extra-ordinary place.... quite magical I would say. Like any developing country, prostitution is a part of life. It's a choice and no but's..... like the casts of this movie, all of them had a choice but they choose to make money the "easy" way. Although I like this movie, this is no different from other movies made with the same theme. It always try to depict the "prostitute" as the victim. I'm not saying that they're not but no one forced them to this "profession" and this movie would actually prove me right. It's sad, in a way, but that is life!
Good insight to the seedy underbelly of Prague October 17, 2001
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
For those of you who have never been to Prague or those who like to learn about eastern europe this is a good insight. i've been there several times and have witnessed first hand what this picture is about. it is a documentary that describes in detail the horrific and dreary lives of those less fortunate in post-communist czech republic. the things that young boys have to do to survive in the big city, having come from small villages outside Prague--this is not a documentary for children. This is a documentary for those who like to learn about all facets of life around the world. Picture quality is not as bad as previous reviews would lead you to believe. I think if you buy it and don't like it you could donate it to a local university's socialogy department.
Adequate Treatment, Not Great January 14, 1999
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
Grodecki's "Not Angels But Angels" is fair treatment of the overwhelming issue adolescent male prostitution in Prague. Although I think his fictionalized treatment in "Mandragora" is better, this is a good first look into these young boys world.
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