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. --IMDb
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin, Juliette Binoche, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Pavel Landovský, Donald Moffat, Daniel Olbrychski, Stellan Skarsgård, László Szabó
Philip Kaufman achieves a delicate, erotic balance with his screen version of Milan Kundera’s “unfilmable” novel. Adapted by Kaufman and Jean-Claude Carrière, the film follows a womanizing surgeon (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he struggles with his free-spirited mistress (Lena Olin) and his childlike wife (Juliette Binoche).
An intimate epic, The Unbearable Lightness of Being charts the frontiers of relationships with wit, emotion, and devastating honesty. --The Criterion Collection
About this movie
Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Date of birth: 23 October 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Writing credits: Milan Kundera, Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
Music: Mark Adler
Year: 1988
Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 172 min.