Kolya | |
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Directed by | Jan Svěrák |
Written by | Zdeněk Svěrák |
Produced by | Eric Abraham Jan Svěrák |
Starring | Zdeněk Svěrák Andrey Khalimon Libuše Šafránková |
Cinematography | Vladimír Smutný |
Edited by | Alois Fišárek |
Music by | Ondřej Soukup |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Space Films |
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Running time | 111 minutes (original) 105 minutes (US version) |
Country | Czech Republic |
Languages | Czech, Slovak and Russian |
Budget | CZK 28 million[1] (app. $1 million) |
Box office | $7.7 million[2] |
Kolya (Czech: Kolja) is a 1996 Czech drama film about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Svěrák and stars his father, Zdeněk Svěrák, who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig.[3] Kolya earned critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[4]