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)
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Vladimír Michálek
Director
Milena Jelínková
Screenplay
Milena Jelínková
Story
Jana Tomsová
Executive Producer
Ivana Kačírková
Producer
Alice Nemanská
Producer
Jana Tomsová
Producer
Martin Duba
Director of Photography
Radim Hladík Sr.
Original Music Composer
Michal Dvořák
Original Music Composer
Ivana Kačírková
Editor
Petra Jáchimová
Costume Design
Jindřich Goetz
Production Design
