Forgotten Light

The story

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)

Cast

B Bolek PolívkaVicar Holý V Veronika ŽilkováMarjánka J Jiří LábusVicar Kubišta J Jaromíra MílováBetina P Petr KavanFrancek J Jiří PechaKlíma S Simona PekováOlina Klímová H Hana FrejkováNovačka I Ivo KubečkaNovák S Soňa ValentováDr. Prokopová R Roman Mecnarowski M Miroslav Knoz

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V Václav Legner Z Zita KabátováTante J Jiří Samek M Milan Riehs A Antonín KinskýKinský M Martin Sitta R Richard Staněk A Alena PacholíkováChild A Agáta HanychováEliška M Monika NoskováTerezka V Václav PacholíkVáclav M Martin ChlumMartin K Kryštof HanzlíkDoctor M Michal PřikrylSTB Officer