Kolya . Tucson Weekly . 04-17-97

Kolya

DIRECTED BY: Jan Sverak

REVIEWED: 04-17-97

If Disney had a foreign film division, they might produce something very like Kolya, a sweet movie verging on sentimental that's just saved from being unforgivably cute by its political content. Louka (Zdenek Sverák), a middle-aged cellist forced from the Prague philharmonic by the communist regime, makes a deal to marry a young Russian woman. He's a confirmed bachelor, but she needs Czech citizenship and he needs money. When she runs off to Germany, he's stuck caring for her adorable, 5-year-old son, who teaches Louka a little bit about love, life, and family. Some of the filmmaking here is surprising and sensitive, which makes the manipulative, cloying aspects all the more irksome.

--Stacey Richter

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