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Unbearable Lightness of Being
(1988)
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| | Plot: | Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
Tomas is a surgeon, living in Prague. He has a physical relationship with Sabina - but not an emotional one. They are happy with the situation. Then, Tomas meets a waitress in a station, but leaves. Eventually, she comes to see him in Prague. Will he go against his 'values' and let himself get emotionally involved ?
| | Cast: | | Daniel Day-Lewis | Tomas |
| Juliette Binoche | Tereza |
| Lena Olin | Sabina |
| Derek de Lint | Franz |
| Erland Josephson | The Ambassador |
| Pavel Landovský | Pavel |
| Donald Moffat | Chief Surgeon |
| Daniel Olbrychski | Interior Ministry Official |
| Stellan Skarsgård | The Engineer |
| Tomasz Borkowy | Jiri (as Tomek Bork) |
| Bruce Myers | Czech Editor |
| Pavel Slabý | Pavel's Nephew |
| Pascale Kalensky | Nurse Katja |
| Jacques Ciron | Swiss Restaurant Manager |
| Anne Lonnberg | Swiss Photographer |
| László Szabó | Russian Interrogator |
| Vladimír Valenta | Mayor |
| Clovis Cornillac | Boy in Bar |
| Leon Lissek | Bold Man in Bar |
| Consuelo De Haviland | Tall Brunette |
| Jacqueline Abraham-Vernier | |
| Judith Atwell | |
| Claudine Berg | |
| Jean-Claude Bouillon | (as Jean-Claude Bouillion) |
| Miroslaw Beuer | |
| Niven Busch | |
| Margot Capelier | |
| Victor Chelkoff | |
| Monica Constandache | |
| Jean-Claude Dauphin | |
| Dominique De Moncutt | |
| Bernard Lepinaux | |
| Josiane Lévêque | |
| Peter Majer | |
| Charles Millot | |
| Gérard Moulévrier | |
| Jan Nemec | |
| Charly Oleg | |
| Sylvie Plantard | |
| Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff | |
| Christine Potter | |
| Hana Maria Pravda | |
| Romano | |
| André Sanfratello | |
| Jirí Stanislav | |
| Milos Szoboda | |
| Helenka Vernier | |
| Marrian Walters | |
| Philip Kaufman | Man walking on street outside Sabina's flat (uncredited) |
| Isabelle Noérie | Student (uncredited) |
| Writing By:
| | Milan Kundera | (novel) |
| Jean-Claude Carrière | (screenplay) & |
| Philip Kaufman | (screenplay) |
| Produced By:
| | Bertil Ohlsson | executive producer |
| Paul Zaentz | associate producer |
| Saul Zaentz | producer |
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