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very nice ,funny with typical Sverak's humour
I don't write about the story-I think ,that the story is very good . The best non-speaking english film of 1997 ,he got Oscar. It is a story about one older man and suddenly ,he must care of little russian boy Kolya ,he don't speak russia and little kid don't speak czech etc. I don't konow how americans can understand typical sverak's humour which consits of games with czech language. I really don't know how they can be so bossy ,that they can't make a really good dabing. The subtitles are not good . A man ,who see the foreign film with the subtitles ,he is boring. he must keep his eyes stil on tv ,there you can the problem with american useful and lazy life. back to kolya(rather): The thing that the screnplay ,has been wroten by the main actor .He wrote it for him the best ,for the people to make lot of fun

Thank you for reading my review about KOlYA

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Cute alternative to Hollywood.
This is a "lite", cute movie that will offend no-one (except, as I see below, someone's Slovak relatives: teehee!) Please pay no attention to that Czech guy below who goes on about how "subtle" and deep the movie is and how no-one who hasn't lived through the experience, blah, blah, blah, will understand it: this is the standard claim of many a blowhard who thinks that only they have the patent on understanding their own history. After all, the Academy voted Kolya best foreign film, so how subtle could it have been? Just the opposite: with an eye to non-Czech audiences, the script is teeming with innocuous "explanatory notes" so that really everyone gets the drift eventually. The boy is cute, Mr. Sverak wry, the plot is quite funny, Prague is pretty, and the subtitles are pretty damn good (oh yes, I do speak Czech). All in all, a tasteful, decorous confection with a sweet but inoffensive dollop of sentiment.

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Wonderful viewing.
Not only is this a touching story, it is also at times, a humorous one. I will not bore you with the story line as I am sure you have read about it in previous reviews anyway.

It bought a tear to the eye of this grown man, even though the story is not that original, and you can pretty much guess the ending.

That said, this is still worthy of a couple of lazy hours. One of the better movies I have seen in a while.