The Millennial Bee

1983 [SLOVAK]

Comedy / Drama / War

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 649 649

19th century 1910s 1900s

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Plot summary

A family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovak village over a period of thirty years (1887–1917). The first part captures the life of Martin Pichandu in the development of his craft, masonry; in the second part, his son is center stage living in a period of socio-political crisis, which ultimately results in the first World War. After originally airing on Czechoslovakian television in 1983 as a four-part 226-minute mini-series, this production received a 163-minute theatrical release in 1984.

Director

Juraj Jakubisko Photo
Juraj Jakubisko

Top cast

Michal Docolomanský Photo
Michal Docolomanský as Valent
Jana Olhová Photo
Jana Olhová as Maid
Hugo Kaminský Photo
Hugo Kaminský as Haderpán
Eva Jakoubková Photo
Eva Jakoubková as Kristína
720p.BLU
1.45 GB
958*720
Multiple languages 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
2 hr 41 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by daveryan 10 / 10

Another name in English for this film

I saw this at Los Angeles Filmex in about 1989. The director presented it, and it was called "The Millenial Bees" at that showing.While I recall some of the magical atmosphere of the film as reported in the other commentary, this film traces family and ethnic feuds through generations, and I thought it was an important film historically.Won't someone put this out on DVD, with appropriate historical information? My sense was that it had emotional power and was really instructive about this enduring conflict.Criterion? Another prestige distributor?
Reviewed by andrejrados 10 / 10

Marvellously enchanting beautiful dreamlike film.

I saw this film 20 years ago and it won't fade in my memory. . The scenography is colorful and very culturally bound to the eastern middle europe where you get to share the lives of a big family's men, women and children where magic plays a supporting role in the same way as in Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" ,i.e. not too much to make the surrealism unbelievable. The films fantastic flowery bouquet is also reminiscent of Michalkows "Oci crni""Black Eyes" or "Cinema Paradiso" by Tornatore. Sadly it isn't yet available on DVD, and I live in hope that it and as many more of Jakubiskos films as possible will soon be and with subtitles in as many languages as possible.
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