Kolya
1996 · Movie · 110 min. · Czech Republic
Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
Direction Jan Sverák
Cast Szedenk Sverák · Andrej Chalimon · Irina Livanova · Ondrej Vetchý · Lilian Malkina · Stella Zázvorková · Libuse Safránková
Soundtrack Ondrej Soukup
Screenplay Szedenk Sverák
Cinematography Vladimir Smutny
Original title Kolja (Kolya)
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4K votes (FilmAffinity)
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