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Kolya is a tchèque film of genre Drama directed by Jan Svěrák released in USA on 15 may 1996 with Zdeněk Svěrák

Kolya (1996)

Kolya
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Released in USA 15 may 1996
Length 1h45
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Musical
Rating76% 3.846993.846993.846993.846993.84699

Kolya (Czech: Kolja) is a 1996 Czech drama film about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Svěrák and stars his father, Zdeněk Svěrák, who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig. Kolya earned critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Synopsis

The film begins in 1988 as the Soviet bloc is beginning to disintegrate. František Louka, a middle-aged Czech man dedicated to bachelorhood and the pursuit of women, is a concert cellist struggling to eke out a living by playing funerals at the Prague crematorium. He has lost his previous job at the Czech Philharmonic, having been half-accidentally blacklisted as "politically unreliable" by the authorities. A friend offers him a chance to earn a great deal of money through a sham marriage to a Russian woman to enable her to stay in Czechoslovakia. The woman then uses her new citizenship to emigrate to West Germany, where her boyfriend lives.

Actors

Zdeněk Svěrák

(František Louka)Libuše Šafránková

(Klára)Stella Zázvorková

(maminka)Ladislav Smoljak

(Houdek)Silvia Šuvadová

(Blanka)
And :
Nikola Hejko
Petra Špalková
Jiří Sovák
Slávka Budínová
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