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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 bachelor life is turned upside-down. The... [More]

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

Director: Jan Sverak

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Jul 2, 2002

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02/09/06

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06/14/05

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

...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

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