Kolya

1996 [CZECH]

Comedy / Drama / Music

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 92% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 16737 16.7K

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Plot summary

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

Director

Jan Sverák Photo
Jan Sverák

Top cast

Miroslav Táborský Photo
Miroslav Táborský as Novotný
Emma Cerná Photo
Emma Cerná as Doctor at Hospital
Libuse Safránková Photo
Libuse Safránková as Klára
Jirí Sovák Photo
Jirí Sovák as Ruzicka
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1 GB
1280*720
Czech 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  cz  fi  fr  it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 28
1.86 GB
1920*1080
Czech 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  cz  fi  fr  it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 46

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gws-2 9 / 10

A Thoughtful, Luminous Film

What is a man to do who has resisted marriage until late middle age but then enters into a fraudulent marriage of convenience and ends up solely responsible for a five year old in the bargain? That is Franta Louka's dilemma in this beautiful film. Louka, played by Zdenek Sverak who also wrote the screenplay, is a onetime philharmonic cellist who has lost his orchestra job because the Soviet era Czech communist powers-that-be deem him unreliable. As a consequence Louka has been reduced to playing at weddings and funerals and re-gilding cemetery tombstones. He has no car and is deeply in debt. In order to finance a car and reduce his debt Louka lets a coworker from the cemetery convince him to marry a Russian woman so that she can emigrate to the West. Louka reluctantly agrees and married the woman but the Russian decamps. This ultimately results in Louka becoming solely responsible for the woman's five year old boy -- who only speaks Russian. Louka and the little boy's relationship is both believable and moving. "Kolya" is very nearly a great film. Highly, highly recommended. 9 out of 10.
Reviewed by gbheron 9 / 10

Heart-Warming, Charming Film

Reviewed by Floop1977 9 / 10

Magical performances in a touching film

Take the old formula of two mismatched people being forced to live together, and rejuvenate it by losing the cliches and adding excellent script and direction, and utterly superb acting by all the cast, especially the two leads (the grouch and the boy). The characterisations are just spot on.Whenever I see films like this I end up both very glad to have seen such an outstanding movie, and extremely irritated that practically no-one knows about this gem of a movie, yet films like 'Godzilla' rake in money.My thanks to all involved with this movie; you have produced a work of art.
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