Wednesday September 24th 2014
Czechoslovakia 1996, 101 minutes
Director: Jan Sverak
Starring: Zdenek Sverak, Andrey Khalimon, Libuse Safrankova.

Louka is a cellist in pre-revolutionary Prague, making a slender living in a group providing background music in a crematorium. He enjoys his carefree bachelor lifestyle, with its choice of girlfriends. However, he becomes seriously strapped for cash and reluctantly agrees to be paid for a ‘marriage of convenience’ to a Russian woman, anxious to acquire a Czech passport. Almost immediately she ‘elopes’; Louka then discovers that he has also taken on her five- year-old son, Kolya. That neither can speak a word of the other’s language is only the first of his problems.