The Unbearable Lightness of Being - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Timing:
2:51 (171 min)
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Actors and characters
Tomasz Borkowy
Character Jiri
Bruce Myers
Character Czech Editor
Pavel Slabý
Character Pavel's Nephew
Pascale Kalensky
Character Nurse Katja
Jacques Ciron
Character Swiss Restaurant Manager
Anne Lonnberg
Character Swiss Photographer
Vladimír Valenta
Character Mayor
Consuelo De Haviland
Character Tall Brunette
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, a French writer of Czech origin. Kundera disliked this adaptation so much that he categorically refused to participate in the film's promotional campaign.
- The first version of the film was almost two hours long, but it turned out to be incomprehensible. The film's director, Philip Kaufman, was asked to insert scenes he had previously cut. The next day, a version was ready that went into release. It is believed that Kaufman deliberately showed a short and somewhat confusing version so that he would be allowed to release the full version, lasting almost 3 hours.
- Miloš Forman (1932-2018) personally offered Philip Kaufman the opportunity to direct this film after learning of the interest major film studios were beginning to show in adapting Milan Kundera's 1982 novel. Forman himself did not dare to direct it because he had family in Czechoslovakia and feared repression, as the country was then under Soviet occupation.
- Lena Olin met the lead actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, on the first day of filming. On that very day, they had to appear nude before the camera and perform a love scene.
- The scenes depicting the Soviet Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 used both documentary footage from that time and footage of a reconstruction of the events. The documentary footage was shot by young people. One of them appears in the film – he is the one being beaten by Soviet soldiers and having his filmed footage confiscated.
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