T H E U N B E A R A B L E L I G H T N E S S O F B E I N G
The Saul Zaentz Company Presents / A Philip Kaufman Film
Released February 1988
BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS (BAFTA) AWARDS 1989
Best Screenplay-Adapted / Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1989
NOMINATIONS
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium / Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
Best Cinematography / Sven Nykvist
The Saul Zaentz Company Presents / A Philip Kaufman Film
Released February 1988
BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS (BAFTA) AWARDS 1989
Best Screenplay-Adapted / Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1989
NOMINATIONS
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium / Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
Best Cinematography / Sven Nykvist
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is based on Milan Kundera's internationally acclaimed novel. It is a love story that begins during the Prague Spring, the liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia that the Soviets crushed with the invasion of August 1968. Tomas, a prominent young brain surgeon, is a bachelor and an epic womanizer. His relationships, whether short or long-term, are light by design. He meets a young woman in a country bar who moves in and eventually marries him, even as he continues other affairs. Their lives are disrupted by the Soviet invasion, which the film depicts through scenes of the characters edited with documentary clips of the historic event.
CREDITS
Directed by Philip Kaufman Produced by Saul Zaentz Executive Producer Bertil Ohlsson Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière & Philip Kaufman Based on the Novel by Milan Kundera Associate Producer Paul Zaentz Music by Mark Adler Cinematography by Sven Nykvist, A.S.C. Supervising Film Editor Walter Murch Production Design by Pierre Guffroy Costume Design by Ann Roth |
CAST
Daniel Day-Lewis / Tomas Juliette Binoche / Tereza Lena Olin / Sabina Derek de Lint / Franz Erland Josephson / The Ambassador Pavel Landovský / Pavel Donald Moffat / Chief Surgeon Daniel Olbrychski / Interior Ministry Official Stellan Skarsgård / The Engineer Click IMDB for a complete awards, cast and crew listing.{http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096332/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1} |