Forgotten Light

Year: 1996

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: Czech

Director: Vladimír Michálek

Drama

Father Holy, a village priest in 1980s Czechoslovakia, battles state and Church bureaucracy to fund a new roof for his church, showing good‑humored devotion to the villagers. When his fight fails, he is transferred away from his parish and allies. Adapted by Czech‑American Milena Jelinek, it is based on Jakub Deml’s 1934 novel The Forgotten Light.

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