Release Date
Original Release
September 11, 1992
1h 48m
It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
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.
Director
Juraj Jakubisko
Department: Directing
Cast
Deana Horváthová
Nona
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová
Ester
Juraj Kukura
Robert
Vilma Jamnická
Margita
Ľubomír Paulovič
Viliam
V. D. Hoai Phuong
Sajgon
Stano Dančiak
kpt. Klinec
Tomáš Žilinčík
Laco
Pavel Nový
Vekslák
Vladimír Jedľovský
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