Kolya

55-year-old Louka (Zdenek Sverak) is a gifted musician in Czechoslovakia who once made a good living playing in the State Symphony Orchestra. However, he has little use for the government, and after putting a playfully insulting statement on a government form, he's been banished from official music ...more

Set during the late '80s when the Czech Republic saw the end to the Russian occupation, the Academy award-winning Kolya reflects this transitional period of political change through a tenderly personal story. Screenwriter and leading man Zdenek Sverak is handsome in a rough Sean Connery way, a fitting look for his middle-aged bachelor character, Louka. To add to the separation between the two, the lonely little boy Kolya (Andrei Khalimon) speaks only Russian, a language Louka refuses to learn to ...more