The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In 1968 Prague, a womanising surgeon, his devoted wife, and his free spirited lover navigate desire and fidelity as Soviet tanks roll in.
Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Drama nominee, 1989
In Prague in 1968, Tomas, a surgeon who treats sex as a game apart from love, marries the earnest Tereza while continuing his affair with the independent artist Sabina. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia scatters their lives and forces each of them to weigh freedom against attachment.
The film splits desire from fidelity and sets erotic lightness against the pull of love and the weight of political trauma, using the triangle to explore how identity is formed through what a person is willing to bind themselves to. It was nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes in 1989, and is based on the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
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- 1988
- United States
- English
- Film