It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick poster
Basic Info
Release: September 11, 1992
Runtime: 108 min
Rating: ⭐ 4.9/10 (8 votes)
Status: Released
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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

1992 108 min ⭐ 4.9/10 8 votes
Overview

A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.

Genres
Comedy Drama
Production Countries
  • Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
  • Czech cs
  • Slovak sk

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Cast
Deana Horváthová
Deana Horváthová
Nona
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová
Ester
Juraj Kukura
Juraj Kukura
Robert
Vilma Jamnická
Margita
Ľubomír Paulovič
Ľubomír Paulovič
Viliam
V. D. Hoai Phuong
Sajgon
Stano Dančiak
Stano Dančiak
kpt. Klinec
Tomáš Žilinčík
Laco
Pavel Nový
Pavel Nový
Vekslák
Vladimír Jedľovský
Vladimír Jedľovský
Oľga Zöllnerová
Zdeněk Dušek
Zdeněk Dušek
Crew
Jiří Bulis
Music
Juraj Jakubisko
Juraj Jakubisko
Director
Juraj Jakubisko
Juraj Jakubisko
Writer
Viktor Růžička
Cinematography
Miloš Krkoška
Music
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