The Wonderful Years That Sucked
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The Wonderful Years That Sucked at FMovies. Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
- Genre: Comedy
- Country: Czech Republic
- Director: Petr Nikolaev
- Cast: Ondřej Vetchý, Libuše Šafránková, Vladimír Javorský, Jakub Wehrenberg, Jan Zahálka, Jitka Ježková, Klára Botková, Vladimír Dlouhý, Vilma Cibulková, Miriam Kantorková, Květa Fialová, Stanislav Zindulka, Otakar Brousek, Viktor Preiss, Jiří Schmitzer, Alice Bendová, Emma Černá, Miloň Čepelka, Otmar Brancuzský, Lenka Vychodilová, Jan Hraběta,