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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)

It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1992, September 11
Directors: Juraj Jakubisko
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: MiroFilm, MiroFilm
Cast: Pavel Nový, Ľubomír Paulovič, Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová, Juraj Kukura, Deana Horváthová, Stano Dančiak, Vilma Jamnická, V. D. Hoai Phuong, Tomáš Žilinčík, Hana Packertová

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.

Keywords:

communism pregnancy ambivalent surrealism road trip farcical satirical czechoslovakia