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Forgotten Light
1996 • 1h 45m • ★ 6.0 (10 votes) Released
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)
Director
Vladimír Michálek
Screenplay
Milena Jelínková
Rating
6.0
Runtime
105 min
Production
Studio FÁMA 92
Česká televizeTop Billed Cast
Keywords
based on novel or book1980s
