Forgotten Light
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Genre Drama Initial release 1996 Running time 1h 45m | 7.2/10 IMDb Duration Director Vladimir Michalek Screenplay Milena Jelinek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Jakub Deml (book), Milena Jelinek Music director Radim Hladik, Michal Dvorak Cast Bolek Polívka (Vicar Holý), Veronika Žilková (Marjánka), Jiří Pecha (Klíma), Jiří Lábus (Vicar Kubišta), Zita Kabátová (Tante), Richard Metznarowski (Chapter's Vicar)Similar movies Czech Republic movies, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forgotten Light (Czech: Zapomenuté světlo) is a 1996 Czech film directed by Vladimír Michálek. The screenplay by Czech-American Milena Jelinek is based on a 1934 book by Jakub Deml which is considered a masterpiece of Czech literature of the 20th century. The film was the Czech Republic's submission to the 70th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The protagonist is Father Holy, a village priest, who battles the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia 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 transferred away from his parish and his allies.
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