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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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| Daniel Day-Lewis | ... | Tomas | |
| Juliette Binoche | ... | Tereza | |
| Lena Olin | ... | Sabina | |
| Derek de Lint | ... | Franz | |
| Erland Josephson | ... | The Ambassador | |
| Pavel Landovský | ... | Pavel | |
| Donald Moffat | ... | Chief Surgeon | |
| Daniel Olbrychski | ... | Interior Ministry Official | |
| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | The Engineer | |
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Tomasz Borkowy | ... | Jiri (as Tomek Bork) |
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Bruce Myers | ... | Czech Editor |
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Pavel Slabý | ... | Pavel's Nephew |
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Pascale Kalensky | ... | Nurse Katja |
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Jacques Ciron | ... | Swiss Restaurant Manager |
| Anne Lonnberg | ... | Swiss Photographer | |
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever. Written by Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>
One of the most romantic films ever made, it shows the problems of people whose intimacies and personal conflicts are being interrupted by history on the move. I think this film surpasses the novel, which is utterly cynical (although understandably). Even in the last moments of the novel, Teresa is concerned that Tomas is cheating on her. The film also does well by dropping much of Franz's character - he was kind of uninteresting compared to Teresa, Tomas, and Sabina. It also drops such deadweight characters as Teresa's mother, Tomas' son, and Franz's wife. Also, a ton of different coworkers are combined into a few, so that their characters have time to develop. By concentrating on the three central characters, this film blossoms past what the novel ever achieved (although the novel is arguably more historically important). Philip Kaufman and Jean-Claude Carriere also add a couple of beautiful scenes that weren't in the novel, including Tomas' and Teresa's wedding, which is one of the most beautiful scenes in filmdom.