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Forgotten Light
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- Drama
Overview
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)
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- 1980s
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 19, 1996
- Original language
- Czech
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Production
- Česká televize,Studio Fáma 92,Studio FÁMA 92
- Cast
- Martin Sitta,Bolek Polívka,Monika Nosková,Alena Pacholíková,Martin Chlum,Milan Riehs,Jiří Lábus,Ivo Kubečka,Roman Mecnarowski,Václav Pacholíkand 16 more
- Director
- Vladimír Michálek
- Writer
- Jakub Deml,Milena Jelínková
- Cinematography
- Martin Duba
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0118213