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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