Forgotten Light
Release Date: 1996-12-19
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)
Rating: 6.3 / 10
Cast
Bolek Polívka
as Vicar Holý
Veronika Žilková
as Marjánka
Jiří Lábus
as Vicar Kubišta
Jaromíra Mílová
as Betina
Petr Kavan
as Francek
Crew
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Milena Jelínková - Screenplay
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Vladimír Michálek - Director
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Jana Tomsová - Executive Producer
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Kryštof Hanzlík - First Assistant Director
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Hynek Svoboda - Second Assistant Director
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