Synopsis
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)
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Vladimír MichálekDirector
- Milena JelínkováScreenplay
- Radim Hladík Sr.Original Music Composer
- Michal DvořákOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bolek PolívkaVicar Holý
- Veronika ŽilkováMarjánka
- Jiří LábusVicar Kubišta
- Jaromíra MílováBetina
- Petr KavanFrancek
- Jiří PechaKlíma
- Simona PekováOlina Klímová
- Hana FrejkováNovačka
- Ivo KubečkaNovák
- Soňa ValentováDr. Prokopová
- Roman MecnarowskiCast
- Miroslav KnozCast
Themes
based on novel or book1980s