The Unbearable Lightness of Being Page #4

Synopsis: Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Philip Kaufman
Production: Orion Home Video
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1988
171 min
1,039 Views


Complete freedom of speech, of the press.

Emancipation from the Russians.

That's all we wanted.

And you think

the Russians will let us emancipate?

What can they do?

Nothing, Doctor. Nothing!

-Keep on writing.

-Thanks, but surgery's easier.

Take me to them.

You're awake.

-Take me to them.

-To whom?

To the other women.

Take me to them

when you make love to them.

I'll undress them for you.

I'd like to.

Really.

I'll give them a bath,

and I'll bring them to you.

I'll do anything you like.

Other women's bodies

will be our playthings.

Tereza, what are you talking about?

I know you see other women. I know it.

You can't hide it from me.

Every day I try to tell myself:

"Well, it's nothing.

"It's not important.

"He's just playing around.

He can't resist it.

"But he loves me. I know he loves me.

I'm sure about that. He loves me.

"He loves me! "

But I can't stand it.

I tried hard. I just can't.

Take me to them. Don't leave me alone!

Tereza, calm down.

Stop talking. Try to sleep.

You need some sleep now.

I don't want to sleep.

I know you're tired of me.

I know that.

I can see it in your eyes.

Hello. Yes.

What?

Here they come!

Tereza, stay there. Karenin!

Tomas!

-I'm going to Switzerland.

-Where?

To Geneva.

Good luck.

-Good luck!

-Be careful!

-What country are you from?

-The Netherlands.

Good. Take these.

Have them published, please.

Tereza!

Tereza!

Tereza!

Have you gone mad?

Don't you realize that we love you?

That we always loved you?

That we came to protect you?

To protect?

To protect us from what?

Did you give your pictures to foreigners?

Yes, I did.

Do you realize

that you could be shot for that?

They are identifying people

from our photographs.

-Is it your camera?

-No.

I'm sure it's yours. Who is this man?

Who is this man?

Never seen him before.

-It's you!

-No.

-I'm sure it's you!

-Definitely not.

It's you.

No.

No.

No!

-Good luck.

-You, too.

The invasion of our country...

constitutes a clear act of aggression...

against an independent country.

Our Czech people

had the right and the duty...

to fight against the aggressor.

People who don't have the courage...

to fight with arms in their hands

do not deserve freedom.

So why did you emigrate?

Go back and fight.

It's very easy for you here

to tell other people to fight.

One day, everybody will be asked:

"What did you do

against the Communist regime?"

Excuse me.

Excuse me,

I wanted to ask you something.

-What do you want to ask?

-Why did you do that back there?

Why do you want to know?

-Who are you?

-My name is Franz.

I came to that meeting to listen.

No, I'm not from the police.

I'm a professor at the university.

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Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière (French: [ka.ʁjɛʁ]; born 17 September 1931) is a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree. He was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school. Carrière was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of Buñuel's late French films. more…

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