Forgotten Light
Dec 19 1996
•2h 45m
•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)
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Bolek Polívka
Vicar Holý
Veronika Žilková
Marjánka
Jiří Pecha
Klíma
Jiří Lábus
Vicar Kubišta
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