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Forgotten Light
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6.2Father 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)
Released: 1996-12-19105 minDir: Vladimír MichálekDrama
Cast
- 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
Themes
- based on novel or book
- 1980s
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 706570
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- publication date
- 1996-01-01
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