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Forgotten Light

6.3 105 mins Drama   1996
Studio FÁMA 92   Česká televize  
Director(s): Vladimír Michálek

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)

Casts of Forgotten Light

Bolek Polívka

as Vicar Holý

Veronika Žilková

as Marjánka

Jiří Lábus

as Vicar Kubišta

Jaromíra Mílová

as Betina

Petr Kavan

as Francek

Jiří Pecha

as Klíma

Simona Peková

as Olina Klímová

Hana Frejková

as Novačka

Ivo Kubečka

as Novák

Soňa Valentová

as Dr. Prokopová

Zita Kabátová

as Tante

Antonín Kinský

as Kinský

Agáta Hanychová

as Eliška

Monika Nosková

as Terezka

Václav Pacholík

as Václav

Martin Chlum

as Martin

Kryštof Hanzlík

as Doctor

Michal Přikryl

as STB Officer

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