Forgotten Light

Name: Forgotten Light
Director: Vladimír Michálek
Released: 1996
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Zilková, Petr Kavan, Jirí Pecha, Simona Peková

1996 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 309 VOTES · DIR. Vladimír Michálek

Overview

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)

Dialogue Timeline — 632 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:20 I christen you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

00:06:53 Grab hold of that, Mr. Kinský, pull it across. Stretch it across.

00:12:01 III have to do something about that roof. And get some funding.

00:15:16 I don't care about that. Why are you closing the churches?

00:19:25 And it was all suddenly clear to me.

00:21:55 Yeah? Who exactly? For goodness sake, mum...

00:25:10 I thought she was a nurse.

00:28:17 For the Word is light, the Word is above us.

00:32:05 Yes, from the seminary. A very clever man.

00:35:19 You know how ill you are, two hours there and two back.

00:38:41 That statue might turn out to be a waste of time.

00:42:09 Were done here anyway, father.

00:45:27 Marjánka!

00:49:14 But its my last church.

00:53:22 I want to hold her, bathe her in tears, kiss her feet.

00:57:56 We want you to have them open the church.

01:03:07 What are we going to do? Its a lovely day, lets walk.

01:06:28 And I asked the archbishop: Shouldn't we abandon celibacy?

01:09:40 The place is closed. We wanted to ask a favor.

01:12:22 What was she called, your beautiful lady from Prague?

01:18:05 Can you turn the lights on? They cut the electricity.

01:22:29 What? Don't you like it?

01:26:19 I went into an abandoned church recently, and I saw God praying.

01:35:18 Why are you still here? The children don't want to go home.

Cast & Characters

Bolek Polívka Vicar Holý Veronika Zilková Marjánka Petr Kavan Francek Jirí Pecha Klíma Simona Peková Klímová Antonín Kinský Count Kinský Jaromíra Mílová Betina Sona Valentová Dr. Prokopová Jirí Lábus Vicar Kubista Richard Metznarowski Chapter's Vicar

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed632

Dialogue density6.0 lines / min

First line00:00:20

Final line01:35:18

Production Record

DirectorVladimír Michálek

LanguageCS

IMDb votes309