It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.
Year: 1992
Studio: Mirofilm
Director: Juraj Jakubisko
Cast: Deana Horváthová, Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová, Juraj Kukura, Vilma Jamnická, Ľubomír Paulovič, Stano Dančiak
Crew: Juraj Jakubisko (Director), Peter Čanecký (Costume Design), Csaba Török (Sound Recordist), Andrej Ludwig (Assistant Director), Ivo Tomeček (Assistant Director), Slavomír Procházka (Set Decoration)
Runtime: 108 minutes
Release: Sep 11, 1992
IMDb: 5.30/10 by 7 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Český, Slovenčina
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : pregnancy, czechoslovakia, surrealism, road trip, communism, satirical, ambivalent, farcical
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