Kolya
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| German title | Kolya | ||
| Original title | Kolya | ||
| Country of production | Czech Republic | ||
| original language | Czech | ||
| Publishing year | 1996 | ||
| length | 101 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
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| Director | Jan Svěrák | ||
| script | Zdeněk Svěrák | ||
| production |
Eric Abraham , Jan Svěrák |
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| music | Ondřej Soukup | ||
| camera | Vladimír Smutný | ||
| cut | Alois Fišárek AFTS | ||
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Kolya (Original title: Kolja ) is a Czech film from 1996. Directed by Jan Svěrák . The screenplay was written by his father Zdeněk Svěrák , who also took on the leading role. In the role of Klára plays Libuše Šafránková , who was previously the leading actress in the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella .
action
Louka, a former cellist of the Czech Philharmonic in Prague , only played at funerals during the Iron Curtain era for political reasons . Longing for his own Trabant and to pay off his debts, the 55-year-old bachelor, suffering from chronic financial difficulties, allows himself to be persuaded to enter into a paid marriage of convenience with a Russian woman so that she receives a Czech passport.
When his newlywed, who works as a journalist, does not return to Prague shortly afterwards from a business trip from West Germany and leaves her five-year-old son Kolya with her mother, Louka becomes the focus of the state. Shortly afterwards, Kolya's grandmother is hospitalized with a heart attack and Kolya temporarily moves in with Louka. With the death of her grandmother, Louka's life is thrown out of step because he has to look after the boy from now on. The fact that the State Security then becomes aware of his strange marriage only complicates his situation insignificantly. Louka, who becomes more and more friends with the boy, fled with Kolya to a village when the youth welfare office also hit him.
The film finally ends with the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of mother and son.
background
The film, which was shot in Prague, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1996 . It was shown in Czech cinemas on May 15, 1996, where it had an audience of 1,345,442 by 1997, making it a huge commercial success in its country of production. 45 weeks after its release, the film was still among the top three most grossing films in the Czech box office. Due to this success and the Oscar win in March 1997, theatrical releases followed in numerous other countries. In the United States, where the film on January 26, 1997 started off, played Kolya about 5.7 million US dollars a. While the film opened in German-speaking Switzerland on April 4, 1997 and in Germany on July 17, 1997, it was not released in Austrian theaters until December 12, 1997. With attendance figures of 624,373 and 273,102, the film was mainly in Germany and Italy also successful. The film was released on DVD by Miramax with an FSK-12 rating. The film was the first DVD production, with the region code has been provided in Region 2 for Western and Central Europe.
The role of Kolya, which was played by Andrei Chalimon , was only cast three weeks before shooting began.
The film is the middle of Jan Svěrák's trilogy of ages . The first film in the trilogy is Die Volksschule , the last part is Leergut .
reception
“A fifty-year-old Prague cellist has to take responsibility for a five-year-old Russian boy through his sham marriage. Only gradually does the man, disappointed in life, succumb to the charm of the child and learn to understand and love. A carefully and warmly staged film. "
“Kolya packs the big emotions into many small, carefully observed scenes and tries to sneak into the hearts of the audience wherever identical US productions want to conquer with emotional force. And not without success. "
Awards
The film won numerous awards, including the 1997 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film . In 1997 he won the Golden Globe in the same category . As Best Film was Kolya in 1996 for the European Film Award nominations, but had to Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves beaten. The film was nominated for the 1997 Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film . Andrei Chalimon was awarded the Young Artist Award for Best Actor in a Foreign Language Film and the film itself received the Young Artist Award in 1997 as Best Foreign Language Family Film.
At the 1997 Czech Lion Film Awards , the film won 13 nominations in six categories, for Best Film , Best Director , Best Screenplay , Best Editing , Andrei Chalimon as Best Supporting Actor and Libuše Šafránková as Best Actress . The film also received the Czech Critics' Prize.
At the 1996 Tokyo International Film Festival , the film won the Grand Prize and the Screenplay Prize. He received an honorable mention at the Venice Film Festival in 1996.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Kolya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ a b LUMIERE - database of film attendance figures in Europe
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ Tobias Becker, Empty bottles, full cinemas , Spiegel Online from January 29, 2008.
- ↑ Kolya. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards