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Forgotten Light

62% | Dec 19, 1996
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)

Top Billed Cast

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Bolek Polívka
Vicar Holý
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Jiří Lábus
Vicar Kubišta
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Petr Kavan
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Featured Crew

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Milena Jelínková
Screenplay
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Vladimír Michálek
Director
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Jana Tomsová
Executive Producer
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Kryštof Hanzlík
First Assistant Director
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Hynek Svoboda
Second Assistant Director
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Milena Jelínková
Story
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Jakub Deml
Book
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Marcela Pittermannová
Dramaturgy
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Martin Duba
Director of Photography
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Pavel Brynych
Camera Operator
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Stanislav Šťastný
Assistant Camera
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Jindřich Goetz
Production Design

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