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
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 5, 1988
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 51m
Content RatingR
Budget$17,000,000
Box Office$10,000,000
Filming LocationsParis · place Saint-Jean · Cour des Voraces · Hôtel de Beauvais · Gare de Senlis · montée du Chemin-Neuf · rue Juiverie · Lyon, France · Geneva, Switzerland · San Francisco, United States · Czech Republic
Genres
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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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