Today’s film is a drama with a scene that happens on August 20. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
Tomas is a surgeon in communist Czechoslovakia who is having an affair with Sabina. He travels to a town to do an operation and meets Tereza, who follows him back to Prague. Tomas gets Sabina to help Tereza find work as a photographer. The Warsaw Pact invade the country on August 20, 1968 [50:40 to 58:13]. Tereza smuggles her film out. She is arrested by the security forces and questioned about her photos. Sabina, then Tomas and Tereza flee to Switzerland. There Sabina falls for a married man, but when he leaves his wife she dumps him. Tomas continues womanizing and when Tereza learns of this she returns to Prague. Tomas follows her. Tomas can’t get his old job back and has to work as a window washer. Terza, jealous over his continued cheating has a one night stand of her own, but becomes remorseful and contemplates suicide which Tomas thwarts. They move to the country. Later Sabina, who has moved to the US is shocked to learn they have been killed in an auto accident.
An interesting film. Develops both the personal and political side of the characters.
Cold War: An Illustrated History 1945-1991 by Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing (Little, Brown & Company, New York, 1998) p. 266
Producer - Bertil Ohlsson, Paul Zaentz and Saul Zaentz
Director - Phillip Kaufman
Screenplay - John-Claude Carriere and Phillip Kaufman
Awards - The film was nominated for the Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards
Running Time – 2 hours 51 minutes
Released - February 5, 1988
Starring -
Daniel Day-Lewis as Tomas
Juliette Binoche as Tereza
Lena Olin as Sabina
Derek de Lint as Franz
Erland Josephson as Ambassador
Pavel Landovský as Pavel
Donald Moffat as Chief Surgeon
Tomasz Borkowy as Jiri
Daniel Olbrychski as Interior Ministry Official
Stellan Skarsgård as The Engineer
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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