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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)Read moreLess
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)
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 & crew
Bolek PolívkaVicar Holý
Veronika ŽilkováMarjánka
Jiří LábusVicar Kubišta
Jaromíra MílováBetina
Jiří PechaKlíma
Simona PekováOlina Klímová
Hana FrejkováNovačka
Ivo KubečkaNovák
Soňa ValentováDr. ProkopováExplore the crew
- Director
- Vladimír Michálek
- Screenplay
- Milena Jelínková
- Director of Photography
- Martin Duba
- Editor
- Ivana Kačírková
- Producer
- Ivana Kačírková
- Producer
- Jana Tomsová
- Producer
- Alice Nemanská
- Original Music Composer
- Radim Hladík Sr.
- Original Music Composer
- Michal Dvořák