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Kolya (1997) 8.0

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General Information

Completed On: 24 Jan, 1997

Director: Jan Svěrák

Duration: 1 hr 45 min 0 sec

Genres:

Language: Czech, Slovak, Russian

Country: Cambodia

Submitted By: Anna Maurice

Festival Rating

As the Cold War winds down, former concert cellist Louka (Zdenek Sverák) barely makes ends meet providing accompaniment at funerals after being blacklisted from his much cushier job with the Prague Philharmonic. For a fee, he marries a Russian woman (Libuse Safránková) so she can become a Czech citizen, but she immediately emigrates to West Germany, sticking the bachelor with her sickly 5-year-old Kolya (Andrej Chalimon) and a host of official questions about the sham marriage.

  • Producers
    Jan Sverak
  • Producers
    Jan Sverak
  • Producers
    Eric Abraham
  • Writers
    Pavel Taussig
  • Writers
    Zdenek Sverák
  • Film Type
  • Genres
    Comedy,Drama,Music,Art House & International
  • Runtime
    1 hours 45 minutes 0 seconds
  • Completion Date
    24 Jan, 1997
  • Production Budget
    USD
  • Country of Origin
    Cambodia
  • Country of Filming
  • Film Language
    Czech, Slovak, Russian
  • Shooting Format
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Film Color
    Color
  • Student Project
    No
  • First-time Filmmaker
    No

Director's Biography

Jan Svěrák is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award, Crystal Globe, Golden Globe Award, and Tokyo Grand Prix. He lives in Prague.
Jan Sverak spent his studies at FAMU Documentary Department and graduated in 1988. Sverak's talent first attracted attention through his short films Space Odyssey II and Oil Gobblers above all - documentary fiction dealing with "newly discovered species" received the American Academy's Student Oscar (1988).
Director's first feature film Elementary School (1991), a heart-warming period film set in post-war Czechoslovakia, engaged American Academy's attention again and brought a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It was Kolya (1997) to confirm the international success of Sverak's films. Story of a five-year-old Russian boy humanizing a philandering middle-aged Czech cellist won both Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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