Kolya
A heartwarming tale of a 55-year old skirt-chaser who is woken up to the possibility of committed relationships and responsibility when a 5 year old child unexpectedly appears on his doorstep.
Set in Prague in 1988 (released in 1996), as the Soviet Bloc is beginning to crumble, this film has the feel of an old fashioned fairy tale about it: the attention to human detail is all there, in the screenplay, the camerawork, the setting, everything. There is a straightforward, often hilarious, warts-and-all honesty/idiosyncrasy to the whole thing that is very refreshing as well, compared to the production-line ‘characters’ peddled in mainstream cinema.
Well worth the watch.
