Forgotten Light (1996)
Drama
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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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Cast
Bolek Polívka
Vicar Holý
Veronika Žilková
Marjánka
Jiří Lábus
Vicar Kubišta
Jaromíra Mílová
Betina
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Petr Kavan
Francek
Jiří Pecha
Klíma
Simona Peková
Olina Klímová
Hana Frejková
Novačka
Ivo Kubečka
Novák
Soňa Valentová
Dr. Prokopová
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Roman Mecnarowski
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Miroslav Knoz
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Václav Legner
Zita Kabátová
Tante
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Jiří Samek