Kolya
Kolya is a 1996 Czech drama film about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Svěrák and stars his father, Zdeněk Svěrák, who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig. Kolya earned critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Plot
The film begins in 1988 in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. František Louka, a middle-aged man dedicated to bachelorhood and the pursuit of women, is a concert cellist struggling to eke out a living by playing funerals at the Prague crematoriums. He has lost his previous job at the Czech Philharmonic, having been blacklisted as "politically unreliable" by the authorities. A friend offers him a chance to earn a great deal of money through a sham marriage to a Russian woman to enable her to stay in Czechoslovakia. The woman then uses her new citizenship to emigrate to West Germany, where her boyfriend lives.
Awards
Cast
- Andrei Chalimon
- Emma Černá
- Eva Klepáčová
- Filip Renč
- František Xaver Thuri
- Hana Militká
- Irina Bezrukova
- Jan Kašpar
- Jana Altmannová
- Jiří Sovák
- Josef Lakatoš
- Karel Heřmánek
- Ladislav Smoljak
- Lena Birková
- Libuše Šafránková
- Lída Rakušanová
- Lilian Malkina
- Lubomír Píša
- Luboš Bíža
- Magdalena Šebestová
- Marek Daniel
- Miriam Chytilová
- Miroslav Táborský
- Mykola Hejko
- Nela Boudová
- Netta Deborská
- Ondřej Vetchý
- Otmar Brancuzský
- Pavel Pecháček
- Pavel Taussig
- Pavel Vondruška
- Petr Šplíchal
- Petra Špalková
- Rafael Kubelík
- Regina Rázlová
- René Přibil
- Silvia Šuvadová
- Slávka Budínová
- Stella Zázvorková
- Věra Uzelacová
- Veronika Freimanová
- Zdeněk Svěrák