An unflinching portrait of life on the post-Communist streets of Prague
where young men find it all too easy to pick up extra money as porno
models and hustlers. Their clients consist largely of German, Swiss, and
Dutch tourists in search of cheap sex – and for additional income they
make pornos on the side. Along the way they are ripped off, abused, and
degraded until they simply wear out.
The film consists of interviews with a dozen or so teenagers
describing how they first began on the streets, how they drifted into
prostitution and pornography. Some of the subjects seemed drugged;
others are surprisingly articulate. The centerpiece of the film,
however, is an extended interview with a pornographic film director who
at first attempts to gloss over the unsavory aspects of his work – and
who ends by unintentionally revealing just how vicious he actually is.
The pornographer is also a pathologist, and the camera follows him into
the autopsy room and films him at work. Grodecki then intercuts these
scenes with scenes of him directing his latest film, thus making the
point that these boys are no more to those who use them than pieces of
meat.
