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Kolya

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Kolya (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 20  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.9/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Synopsis: When a financially strapped former symphony cellist, now making a meager living by playing at funerals, gets pressured into a paper marriage with a friend's single-mother niece, his roving-eye bachelor life is turned upside-down. The beautiful young woman immediately abandons her new... When a financially strapped former symphony cellist, now making a meager living by playing at funerals, gets pressured into a paper marriage with a friend's single-mother niece, his roving-eye bachelor life is turned upside-down. The beautiful young woman immediately abandons her new husband and her five-year-old son, and the unlikely duo struggles to adjust to their new lives in Prague on the eve of 1989's Velvet Revolution. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Zdenek Sverak, Andrej Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova, Ondrez Vetchy, Stella Zazvorkova

Director: Jan Sverak
Producer: Jan Sverak
Screenwriter: Zdenek Sverak
Story: Pavel Taussig
Composer: Ondrej Soukup

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 2, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1

Audio:

  • TBD

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurette - 1. "Behind the Scenes of KOLYA"

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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Emanuel Levy
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03/15/04
Dragan Antulov
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Disappoints as a lumbering mainstream pic that is all too familiar to Americans.

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02/09/04
Dennis Schwartz
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11/14/03
Carol Cling
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07/30/03
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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
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03/27/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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...one of those beautiful, sweet, buttery-lit movies that will leave all but the bitterest cynics smiling.

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08/28/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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With his big sad eyes, Andrej Chalimon pulls us lovingly and completely into Kolya's life. He's simply perfect as a little Russian refugee in this poignant movie treasure.

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06/24/02
Betty Jo Tucker
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06/18/02
Edward Guthmann
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04/12/02
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Let Kolya work its magic upon your heart.

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02/26/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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01/22/02
Desson Thomson
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REEL_REVIEWER
(1997/1996) KOLYA is a Russian munchkin so cute that he stole the heart of Oscar!!!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 12/17/05

REEL_REVIEWER
(1997/1996) KOLYA is a Russian munchkin so cute that he stole the heart of Oscar!!!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 12/17/05

REEL_REVIEWER
(1997/1996) KOLYA is a Russian munchkin so cute that he stole the heart of Oscar!!!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 12/17/05

REEL_REVIEWER
(1997/1996) KOLYA is a Russian munchkin so cute that he stole the heart of Oscar!!!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 12/17/05

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