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This is one beautiful powerful emotional (and funny) film, and it rightfully deserved the Oscar for best Foreign Language film it received in 1997.

And its base, it may seem like another 'been done before' type of film; a womanizing bachelor is forced to become a father-figure to a cute little kid. But there is so much more depth to this film, and unfortunately, a lot of it is lost... read more

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 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. The woman planned on using those papers to emigrate into West Germany with her 5-year old son, Kolya, but through a series of complications, the mom ends up in the West while her son remained behind the Iron Curtain 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 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. The woman planned on using those papers to emigrate into West Germany with her 5-year old son, Kolya, but through a series of complications, the mom ends up in the West while her son remained behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia.

When authorities begin to suspect the quick marriage might have been a sham, Franta has no choice but to take in Kolya and take care of his russian 'son'. Overcoming language barrier as well as taking care of an abandoned child makes Franta mature out of his bachelor lifestyle, but just as he begins to form a deep bond with his 'son', the Iron Curtain falls throughout Eastern Europe, and Kolya's mother returns for her him.

'Kolya' won the 1997 Oscar as well as Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. ... (more) (less)