Kolya
Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
PG-13
HD
Comedy, Drama, Music
1996
105 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Kolya
- Duration : 105 min
- Languages : Czech, Russian, Slovak
- Writers : Pavel Taussig (story), Zdenek Sverèk (screenplay)
- Directors : Jan Sverèk min
- Imdb : 7.8 (11781 votes)
- Tomatoes : 4.2 (6606 votes)
- Actors : Zdenek Sverèk, Andrey Khalimon, Libuse Safrènkovè, Ondrej Vetchè
Movie Storyline
Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.