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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

A technical very sophisticated, partly with a lot of effects and  sentimental played screening of Milan Kunderas intelligent novel about weaknesses of liberty and the violent problems of our time. It documentates only a little bit the compelling connection between the writing of history and personal fate, but it opens with its sensibility for places, things and especially bodies the thrill between sexuality and feelings   

(Almanach of the International Film)

Zert  (The Joke)

Tschechoslowaky, 1969, 80 min., B/W
Direction: Jaromil Jires 
Book: Zdenek Bláha, Jaromil Jires
(after the novel of Milan Kundera)
Cast: Jana Ditetová (Helena Zemankova), Jaromir Hanzlik (Lieutenant), Vera Kresadlová (Brozova), Ludek Munzar (Pavel Zemanek), Jaroslava Obermeierová (Marketa), Evald Schorm (Kosta), Josef Somr (Ludvik Jahn)

Nikdo se nebude smát (Nobody will laugh)

Milan Kundera wrote the story for this movie.

Tschechoslowaky, 1965, 94 min., B/W
Direction: Hynek Bocan 
Book: Hynek Bocan, Pavel Jurácek
(after the story of Milan Kundera)
Cast: Jan Kacer (Klima), Stepánka Rehákova (Klára Novotná), Josef Chvalina (Josef Záturecky), Hana Kreihanslova (Záturecká)

Clair de femme (Love of a Woman)

Milan Kundera co-wrote the book for this movie.

France / Italy / Germany, 1979, 102 min., coulour
Direction: Costa-Gavras
Book: Christopher Frank
Cast: Romy Schneider (Lydia), Yves Montand (Michel), Francois Perrot (Alain), Gabriel Jabbour (Sacha), Daniel Mesguich (Policeman)

Já, truchlivý buh

Milan Kundera co-wrote the book, it is only available in czek:

Tschechoslowaky, 1969
Direction: Antonín Kachlik
Book: Antonín Kachlik, Milan Kundera
Cast: Milos Kopecký, Hana Lelitová, Pavel Landovský, Jirina Jirasková, Ivana Mixová