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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

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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}

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