Forgotten Light(Movie, 1996)

Name: Forgotten Light
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996
Duration: T01:45:00
Rating: 3.1

Original title: "Zapomenuté světlo" (Czech/CS)

1h 45min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Forgotten Light (Czech: Zapomenuté světlo) is a 1996 Czech film directed by Vladimír Michálek. The screenplay by Czech-American Milena Jelinek is based on a 1934 book by Jakub Deml which is considered a masterpiece of Czech literature of the 20th century. The film was the Czech Republic's submission to the 70th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. The protagonist is Father Holý, a village priest, who battles the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holý is ordered transferred away from his parish and his allies. ()

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Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)

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Additional Information

Production country: Czech Republic

Original language: Czech (CS)

Spoken languages: Czech (CS)

Translated into 3 languages: Czech (CS), English (EN), Portuguese (PT)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/19/1996

Cast: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Žilková, Jiří Pecha, Jaromíra Mílová, Soňa Valentová, Jiří Lábus, Milan Riehs, Martin Macháček, Hana Frejková, Zita Kabátová, Ladislav Lahoda, Jiří Samek, Agáta Hanychová, Martin Sitta, Antonín Kinský, Petr Kavan, Simona Peková, Miroslav Knoz, Ivo Kubečka, Kryštof Hanzlík, Václav Legner, Antonín Hausknecht, Roman Mecnarowski

Director: Vladimír Michálek

Producer: Ivana Kačírková, Alice Nemanská

Screenwriter: Milena Jelinek

Film Editor: Ivana Kačírková

Director of Photography: Martin Duba

Composer: Radim Hladík

Production Designer: Jindrich Goetz

Sound Designer: Radim Hladík

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