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Kolya (1996)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:20

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

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... 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]

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

Starring: Zdenek Sverak, Andrej Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova, Ondrez Vetchy, Stella Zazvorkova, Ladislav Smoljak, Irena Livanova, Lilian Mankina, Petra Spalova, Nella Boudova, Rene Pribyl, Miroslav Taborsky, Slavka Budinova, Jiri Sovak, Karel Hermanek, Eric Abraham

Director: Jan Sverak

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

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  • Winner of the Academy Award(R) and Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film, this irresistible comedy treat was embraced by critics and audiences everywhere! A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires ... setting off a wild set of circumstances -- and leaving him with a pint-sized new roommate! Now, with a mischievous five-year-old named Kolya suddenly in his care ... life in this once carefree playboy's tiny apartment changes faster than he could ever imagine! Uplifting and endlessly funny, KOLYA is delightful motion picture entertainment you'll want to take home!
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    05/06/02
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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
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    Emanuel Levy
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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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    As an Oscar nominee, Kolya lacks the cinematic dazzle of France's Ridicule. But no one can claim that its emotional clout isn't earned.

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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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