Forgotten Light

Name: Forgotten Light
Director: Vladimír Michálek
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-12-19T
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Žilková, Jiří Lábus, Jaromíra Mílová, Petr Kavan

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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)

Actor: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Žilková, Jiří Lábus, Jaromíra Mílová, Petr Kavan, Jiří Pecha, Simona Peková, Hana Frejková, Ivo Kubečka, Soňa Valentová

Director: Vladimír Michálek

Years: 1996

Country: Czech Republic

Quality: HD

Production: Studio FÁMA 92, Česká televize

Forgotten Light

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