Kolya (1996)
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
Producer: Jan Sverak
Screenwriter: Zdenek Sverak
Story: Pavel Taussig
Composer: Ondrej Soukup
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 2, 2002
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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Reviews
Disappoints as a lumbering mainstream pic that is all too familiar to Americans.
...one of those beautiful, sweet, buttery-lit movies that will leave all but the bitterest cynics smiling.
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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