Kolja
Barcode: 58945863
Call Number: V-CZE 010C
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 105 min.
Date: 1996
System Requirements: PAL
DVD Region: Region All
Language: Czech
Creator: Directed by Jan Sverák
Description: Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia, a confirmed bachelor and a lady's man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra, he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt, and when his friend, the grave-digger Mr. Broz, suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she can get her Czech papers, he reluctantly agrees. She takes advantage of the situation to emigrate to West Germany, to her lover; and leaves her five-year-old son with his grandmother; when the grandmother dies, Kolya must come and live with his stepfather - Louka.
Rating/Audience (Video Only): PG-13
Subjects: Comedy, Drama, Music
Collection: Language Resource Center