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KOLJA / KOLYA
CZECH REPUBLIC, GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE 1996
DIRECTOR: Jan Sverak, 105 MIN

The cellist Louka (55) was long ago fired from the philharmonics for political reasons. On the eve of the velvet revolution, he makes his sparse living as a funeral-musician – for lack of money he also enters into a fictitious marriage with a Russian woman. Shortly after the wedding, the bride vanishes towards Western Europe – leaving behind her 5-year-old son Louka, who shows up one day on Louka’s doorstep. With great sensibility for the poetry of everyday life, Czech directing-talent Jan Sverak shows how the Russian boy and Louka form a tender bond. While the political situation grows more acute, the confirmed bachelor learns to take on responsibility. In 1996, KOLYA won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Caligari: 12.04. / 10.30 a.m.

 
         
         
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