Film
Forgotten Light
1996 · 1h 45m · Drama
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Overview
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. (1934)
Cast
Bolek Polívka
Vicar Holý
Veronika Žilková
Marjánka
Jiří Lábus
Vicar Kubišta
Jaromíra Mílová
Betina
Petr Kavan
Francek
Jiří Pecha
Klíma
Simona Peková
Olina Klímová
Hana Frejková
Novačka
Ivo Kubečka
Novák
Soňa Valentová
Dr. Prokopová
Roman Mecnarowski
Miroslav Knoz
Václav Legner
Zita Kabátová
Tante
Jiří Samek
Milan Riehs
Crew
- Vladimír MichálekDirector
- Milena JelínkováScreenplay · Story
- Jana TomsováExecutive Producer · Producer
- Ivana KačírkováEditor · Producer
- Alice NemanskáProducer
- Martin DubaDirector of Photography
- Radim Hladík Sr.Original Music Composer
- Michal DvořákOriginal Music Composer
Details
- Release date
- December 19, 1996
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Czech
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- U
- Genres
- Drama
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