The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Plot.
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
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Cast & Crew.

Daniel Day-Lewis
Tomas

Juliette Binoche
Tereza

Lena Olin
Sabina

Derek de Lint
Franz

Stellan Skarsgård
The Engineer

Erland Josephson
The Ambassador

Pavel Landovský
Pavel

Donald Moffat
Chief Surgeon

Daniel Olbrychski
Interior Ministry Official

Tomasz Borkowy
Jiri

Bruce Myers
Czech Editor

Pavel Slabý
Pavel's Nephew

Pascale Kalensky
Nurse Katja

Jacques Ciron
Swiss Restaurant Manager

Anne Lonnberg
Swiss Photographer

László Szabó
Russian Interrogator

Vladimír Valenta
Mayor

Clovis Cornillac
Boy in Bar

Consuelo De Haviland
Tall Brunette

Leon Lissek
Bold Man in Bar

Jean-Claude Dauphin
Swiss editor

Charles Millot
Lecturer in Geneva

Jan Němec
Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague

Serge Delanoue
Danseur (uncredited)

Philip Kaufman
Man walking on street outside Sabina's flat (uncredited) / Director / Screenplay

Isabelle Noérie
Student (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Carrière
Screenplay

Mark Adler
Original Music Composer

Bertil Ohlsson
Executive Producer

Paul Zaentz
Associate Producer

Sven Nykvist
Director of Photography

Vivien Hillgrove Gilliam
Editor

Michael Magill
Editor

Walter Murch
Editor

Pierre Guffroy
Production Design / Costume Design

Saul Zaentz
Producer

Milan Kundera
Novel

B.J. Sears
Co-Editor

Suzanne Benoit
Key Makeup Artist

Rosalina Da Silva
Makeup Artist

Paul LeBlanc
Key Hair Stylist

Frank Simeone
Unit Production Manager

Daniel Szuster
Production Manager

Simon Brook
Third Assistant Director

Robert Kechichian
Second Assistant Director

Charles Paviot
First Assistant Director

David Franklin Bergad
Sound Editor

Mark Berger
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Todd Boekelheide
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Luis Colina
Sound Effects Editor

Ernie Fosselius
Foley Editor

Richard Hymns
Sound Effects Editor

Pat Jackson
Sound Effects Editor

Ann Kroeber
Sound Effects

Barbara McBane
Dialogue Editor

Chris Newman
Production Sound Mixer

David Parker
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Diana Pellegrini
Sound Editor

Philip Rogers
Sound Recordist

Alan Splet
Sound Designer

Rémy Julienne
Stunt Coordinator

Philippe Houdart
Camera Operator

Bernard Noisette
Camera Operator

George Michael Pantages
Gaffer

Milos Szoboda

Helenka Vernier

Marrian Walters

Jacqueline Abraham-Vernier

Judith Atwell

Claudine Berg

Jean-Claude Bouillon

Miroslaw Beuer

Niven Busch

Margot Capelier

Victor Chelkoff

Monica Constandache

Dominique De Moncutt

Bernard Lepinaux

Jiří Stanislav

André Sanfratello

Romano

Hana Maria Pravda

Christine Potter

Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff

Sylvie Plantard

Charly Oleg

Josiane Lévêque

Gérard Moulévrier
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 5, 1988
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 51m
Content RatingR
Budget$17,000,000
Box Office$10,000,000
Filming LocationsSan Francisco, United States · Czech Republic · Geneva, Switzerland · Paris · place Saint-Jean · Cour des Voraces · Hôtel de Beauvais · Gare de Senlis · montée du Chemin-Neuf · rue Juiverie · Lyon, France
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
free love
based on novel or book
waitress
photographer
infidelity
loyalty
soviet union
soviet troops
surgeon
prague
lover
partnership
warsaw pact
communism
1960s
Wiki.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American romantic drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Claude Carrière, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. The film portrays Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring, and the effect on the main characters of the communist repression that resulted from the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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