The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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Fast women, slow pace.
These words of the screen-writer of Lightness sum up this film entirely, an intricate balance between a political film and a love story.
This is stirring and engaging story that thoroughly challenges your preconceptions of sexuality and the Czech people... read more
A very good movie
Quite boring

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" 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. The film, featured earlier performances by "

" 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. The film, featured earlier performances by "