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Pupendo (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Jan Hrebejk's Pupendo shows the difficulty of life in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. Artist Bedrich Mara is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fabera begins working on a piece about Bedrich, leading to a job offer from a Party official. Things are looking up, until the wrong people hear portions of the historian's writing.
Starring: Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Jaroslav Dusek, Jirí Pecha, Vilma Cibulková, Lukás Baborský, Vojtech Svoboda
Director: Jan Hrebejk
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Tags: Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubová, Jan Hrebejk, Jaroslav Dusek, Jirí Pecha, Lukás Baborský, Vilma Cibulková, Vojtech Svoboda
Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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Zapomenuté světlo / Forgotten Light (1996)
Drama
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml.
Starring: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Zilková, Petr Kavan, Jirí Pecha, Antonín Kinský, Jirí Lábus, Richard Metznarowski
Director: Vladimír Michálek
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Tags: Antonín Kinský, Bolek Polívka, Jirí Lábus, Jirí Pecha, Petr Kavan, Richard Metznarowski, Veronika Zilková, Vladimír Michálek
