The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Daniel Day Lewis stars as a playboy surgeon who falls in love and marries Tereza, whilst continuing an adulterous affair with Lena Olin. Set in Prague just before the 1968 Russian invasion, the three main characters cannot help but get involved in their countries' turmoil. They go to Geneva but return to Prague where Lewis is asked to renounce an anti-Communist article he wrote some years earlier, and in refusing he loses his job. Based on Milan Kundera's acclaimed novel.

Actor: Erland Josephson
Music: Mark Adler
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor: Lena Olin
Actor: Derek de Lint
Actor: Bruce Meyers
Actor: Daniel Olbrychski
Actor: Juliette Binoche
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: Philip Kaufman
Actor: Paul Landovsky
Actor: Stellan Skarsgård
Actor: Tomek Bork
Actor: Pavel Slaby
Actor: Pascale Kalensky
Actor: Jacques Ciron
Writer: Jean-Claude Carrière
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Actor: Donald Moffat
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist