Kolya has been a phenomenal box-office success in the Czech Republic, and Miramax, with international rights, will be hoping to repeat the worldwide success it had with Il postino (The Postman).
Oscar-nominated Czech director Jan Sverak's fourth feature, Kolya, begins during the Velvet Revolution of 1989, with Frantisek Louka (Zdenek Sverak, Jan's father), a cellist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, abusing a Communist bureaucrat. His outburst leaves him barred from leaving the country, and puts an end to his successful career.
He accepts an offer to marry a young Russian woman who desperately needs Czech papers, in return for money. But his young Russian 'wife' suddenly emigrates to Germany, and her five-year-old son Kolya (Andrej Chalimon) is deposited on his doorstep. The two stranded figures begin to develop some sort of relationship, which is threatened by her mother's return. Nick Thomas
Prod co: Portobello Pictures, Biograf Jan Sverak
Prod: Eric Abraham, Jan Sverak
Dir: Jan Sverak
Scr: Zdenek Sverak, based on an idea by Pavel Taussig
Ph: Vladimir Smutny
Prod des: Milos Kohout
Mus: Ondrej Soukup
Ed: Alois Fisarek
Cast: Zdenek Sverak, Andrej Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova, Ondrej Vetchy
Running time: 105 mins
International sales: Pandora Cinema SA, Portobello Pictures Ltd
Screenings: Friday 8 November, 15.45 and 20.45, Odeon West End 1
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