Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94, according to Czech media and sources close to the writer. Kundera was born in Czecho…
He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979 and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019., was published in 1967 and was adapted into a 1969 feature by Jaromil Jires. The film played at San Sebastian, New York and Locarno., which takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The 1988 movie adaptation by Philip Kaufman starred Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. The film was nominated for two Oscars and scored Kaufman a BAFTA win for best adapted screenplay.
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