The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-02-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

171 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (25133 Reviews)

Director:

Philip Kaufman

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Milan Kundera (novel)

Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay)

Philip Kaufman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.

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