TY - GEN AU - Kaufman,Philip AU - Day-Lewis,Daniel AU - Juliette Binoche AU - Lena Olin AU - Derek de Lint AU - Erland Josephson AU - Pavel Landovský AU - Donald Moffat AU - Daniel Olbrychski AU - Stellan Skarsgård AU - Tomek Bork AU - Bruce Myers AU - Pavel Slaby AU - Pascale Kalensky AU - Jacques Ciron AU - Anne Lonnberg TI - The Unbearable Lightness of Being AV - DVD 000021 PY - 1988/// CY - USA PB - The Saul Zaentz Company KW - Drama KW - Romance N2 - 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; Tomas is a surgeon, living in Prague. He has a physical relationship with Sabina - but not an emotional one. They are happy with the situation. Then, Tomas meets a waitress in a station, but leaves. Eventually, she comes to see him in Prague. Will he go against his 'values' and let himself get emotionally involved ? ER -