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Servants [videorecording] / by Ostrochovský, Ivan,1972-film director,screenwriter.; Lenkiewicz, Rebecca,screenwriter.; Leščák, Marek,1971-screenwriter.; Skyva, Samuel,actor.; Polakovic, Samuel,actor.; Ivanov, Vlad,actor.; Strnisko, Vladimír,actor.; Mikulčík, Milan,actor.; Turek, Tomáš,1985-actor.; Point Film,production company.; Libra Film Productions,production company.; Hai Hui Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska,production company.; Sentimentalfilm (Firm),production company.; Negativ (Firm),production company.; Film & Music Entertainment Ltd.,production company.; Film Movement (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)344832;
DVD; NTSC; all regions; full screen; 2.0 stereo.Samuel Skyva, Samuel Polakovic, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimír Strnisko, Milan Mikulčík, Tomáš Turek.Cinematography, Juraj Chlpík ; editors, Jan Daňhel, Martin Malo, Maroš Šlapeta ; music, Miroslav Tóth, Cristian Lolea.Not rated by the MPAA.In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government as informants, or becoming targets of the secret police.
Subjects: Historical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings.; Seminarians; Extortion; Informers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Servant : the awakening / by Foster, L. L.,1958-(CARDINAL)502441;
Demon hunter Gabrielle Cody, burdened with a divine obligation, meets her match in Detective Luther Cross who, believing her to be a murderer, agrees to help her when a malevolent presence leads her to a place of unimaginable evil.
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Servants : a downstairs history of Britain from the nineteenth century to modern times / by Lethbridge, Lucy,author.(CARDINAL)421844;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index.Preface -- The symbolic pantomime -- "A sort of silence and embarrassment" -- The dainty life -- "A seat in the hall" -- Centralising the egg yolks -- Popinjays and mob caps -- The desire for perfection -- "Some poor girl's got to go up and down, up and down -- " -- The sacred trust -- The ideal village -- "Silent, obsequious and omnipresent" -- Bowing and scraping -- The age of ambivalence -- Out of a cage -- "Don't think your life will be any different to mine" -- "It was exploitation but it worked" -- "Tall, strong, healthy and keen to work" -- The mechanical maid -- Outer show and inner life -- A vast machine that has forgotten how to stop working -- Bachelor establishments are notoriously comfortable -- The question of the inner life -- "Do they really drink out of their saucers?' -- "Of alien origin" -- A new Jerusalem -- A new and useful life -- The housewife militant -- "The change : it must have been terrible for them" -- The shape of things to come -- "We don't want them days again' -- "We've moved to the front" -- "I'd never done what i liked -- never in all my life" -- "We like it because the past is not so worrying as the news" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.A compassionate and discerning exploration of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, Servants opens a window onto British society from the Edwardian period to the present.
Subjects: Household employees; Household employees; Social classes;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Job servant. by North Carolina.Employment Security Commission.(CARDINAL)147823;
Subjects: North Carolina. Employment Security Commission;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Secret servant / by Newman, Bernard,1897-1968.(CARDINAL)121905;
Bibliography: pages 284-286.
Subjects: Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920); Secret service; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unfaithful servant / by Harris, Timothy,1946-(CARDINAL)348276;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Kyd, Thomas (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The servant / by Sharaf al-Dīn, Fāṭimah.(CARDINAL)432048;
Fatena, a young servant girl, has her life changed when she meets Marwen, a young wealthy man, who drives her to challenge Lebanese societal standards.HL770L
Subjects: Novels.; Teenage girls; Women household employees; Self-realization in women; Secrecy; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Servant mage / by Elliott, Kate,1958-author.(CARDINAL)349327;
"In Kate Elliott's Servant Mage, a lowly fire mage finds herself entangled in an empire-spanning conspiracy on her way to discovering her true power. They choose their laws to secure their power. Fellion is a Lamplighter, able to provide illumination through magic. A group of rebel Monarchists free her from indentured servitude and take her on a journey to rescue trapped compatriots from an underground complex of mines. Along the way they get caught up in a conspiracy to kill the latest royal child and wipe out the Monarchist movement for good. But Fellion has more than just her Lamplighting skills up her sleeve..."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Magic; Conspiracies; Indentured servants;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Reluctant servant; the story of Charles G. Ross / by Farrar, Ronald T.;
Bibliography: pages 247-250.
Subjects: Biographies.; Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Servants' hall [large print] a real life upstairs, downstairs romance / by Powell, Margaret,1907-1984.(CARDINAL)711388;
In the sequel to Below Stairs, Powell tells the true story of Rose, the under-parlourmaid to the Wardham Family at Redlands, who took a shocking step: She eloped with the family's only son. Once again bringing a lost world to life, Powell trains her pen on her "betters" in this next warm, funny chapter from a life spent in service.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Large print books.; Powell, Margaret, 1907-1984.; Cooks; Household employees;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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