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Unbearable Lightness of Being (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 171 mins

  • Director: Philip Kaufman
  • Writer: Milan Kundera; Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Producer: Bertil Ohlsson; Paul Zaentz

CGiii Comment

It was always going to be a Herculean task...adapting Kundera.

Day-Lewis doesn't take to the part...and, it makes the whole thing feel like an exhausting trek.

Seriously...hard work with no compensation.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.

Cast & Characters

Daniel Day-Lewis as Tomas;
Juliette Binoche as Tereza;
Lena Olin as Sabina;
Derek de Lint as Franz;
Erland Josephson as The Ambassador;
Pavel Landovsky as Pavel;
Donald Moffat as Chief Surgeon;
Daniel Olbrychski as Interior Ministry Official;
Stellan Skarsgard as The Engineer;
Tomasz Borkowy as Jiri;
Bruce Myers as Czech Editor;
Pavel Slaby as Pavel's Nephew;
Pascale Kalensky as Nurse Katja;
Jacques Ciron as Swiss Restaurant Manager;
Anne Lonnberg as Swiss Photographer