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Title: Kolya (1996)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Zdenek Sverák | ... | Louka | |
| Andrey Khalimon | ... | Kolja (as Andrej Chalimon) | |
| Libuse Safránková | ... | Klára | |
| Ondrej Vetchý | ... | Broz | |
| Stella Zázvorková | ... | Mother | |
| Ladislav Smoljak | ... | Houdek | |
| Irina Bezrukova | ... | Nadezda (as Irina Livanova) | |
| Silvia Suvadová | ... | Blanka | |
| Liliyan Malkina | ... | Tamara (as Lilian Malkina) | |
| Karel Hermánek | ... | Musil | |
| Petra Spalková | ... | Pasa | |
| Nela Boudová | ... | Brozová (as Nella Boudová) | |
| René Pribil | ... | Pokorný | |
| Miroslav Táborský | ... | Novotný | |
| Slávka Budínová | ... | Bustiková | |
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Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka. Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
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paper marriage | gold digger | marriage for money | promiscuity | pregnant woman |Taglines:
The perfect grouch has met his match. A five-year-old boy named Kolya. See more »Parents Guide:
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Eliska Balzerová turned down the part of a doctor, eventually played by Veronika Freimanová. See more »Goofs
Throughout the movie, many background cars are clearly newer than 1989 models. The film is set in 1989. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Release Date:
24 January 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Kolya See more »Filming Locations:
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$5,770,254Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Who knows what you will do when your back is against the wall? Survival makes you do some things that you would never try. In this case Louka (Zdenek Sverák), a confirmed bachelor, marries a Russian woman to get her Czech papers and to get him some money to buy a car and fix his house and pay some debts.
As soon as they marry, she heads to Germany. her son, Kolja (Andrei Chalimon), a little five-year-old, ends up with Louka, who soon finds that he is bonding with the boy.
It is a beautifully touching story with some outstanding performances by the two leads and Libuse Safránková as Klara.
It is fascinating that star and writer of the screenplay is also the father of the director. I cannot imagine how that worker, but I bet it was interesting at times.