Forgotten Light
Zapomenuté světlo
Release: 1996-12-19
·Runtime: 105m
·★ 6.3
Drama
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)
Production Countries
Czech Republic
Production Companies
Studio FÁMA 92
Česká televize
Cast
Jiří Lábus
as Vicar Kubišta
Zita Kabátová
as Tante
Bolek Polívka
as Vicar Holý
Veronika Žilková
as Marjánka
Simona Peková
as Olina Klímová
Agáta Hanychová
as Eliška
Michal Přikryl
as STB Officer
Hana Frejková
as Novačka
Jaromíra Mílová
as Betina
Jiří Pecha
as Klíma
Ivo Kubečka
as Novák
Soňa Valentová
as Dr. Prokopová
Martin Sitta