Awards: Academy Award Best Foreign Film
Cast: Zdenek Sverak; Audrei Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova
Set at the end of the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia we meet a musician whose mother hates the Russians, whose brother has emigrated, and who has been taught by his family that he cannot have a personal life if he wants to be a great musician.
These conditions have left him alone, lonely, and recently dismissed from his job at the national philharmonic.
And he is broke and randy and spends his days looking for work and his nights chasing after every skirt he sees.
When offered a lot of money to marry a Russian woman so she won't be deported (it is a faux-marriage, no conjugal rights--on paper only) he agrees so he can help his mother repair her home and so he can get an automobile.
His new wife immediately leaves the country and he is left with her five year old boy to raise: a job he does not want.
This is a beautifully done movie. It avoids the sentimental traps it could easily have fallen into. Recommended.
These conditions have left him alone, lonely, and recently dismissed from his job at the national philharmonic.
And he is broke and randy and spends his days looking for work and his nights chasing after every skirt he sees.
When offered a lot of money to marry a Russian woman so she won't be deported (it is a faux-marriage, no conjugal rights--on paper only) he agrees so he can help his mother repair her home and so he can get an automobile.
His new wife immediately leaves the country and he is left with her five year old boy to raise: a job he does not want.
This is a beautifully done movie. It avoids the sentimental traps it could easily have fallen into. Recommended.
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