Forgotten Light (1996)

ALL 12/19/1996 (cs) Drama 105 Min
  • Release
    12/19/1996
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    Zapomenuté světlo
  • Original language
    cs
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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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Forgotten Light (1996) 105 Min

ALL 12/19/1996 (cs)
Drama
  • Release 12/19/1996
  • Production
  • Original title Zapomenuté světlo
  • cs
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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)

  1. Vladimír Michálek

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer