KOLYA is the name of a 5-year-old boy. His mother obtained Czech citizenship in order to leave the Soviet Union and sham knot with an old Czech man playing the cello, but soon went to Germany with her boyfriend and kept him in order to be able to go abroad. To my grandma in the Czech Republic. After the grandmother suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital, the child could only be with the falsely married stepfather. When he first arrived at the strange old man's house, the child sobbed silently and stubbornly ignored the old man. But after all, he was a child. After two days, he gradually became familiar with him and became very close to the old man. The child's innocence and cuteness are really lethal. Such eyes and expressions are really hard to refuse. It's no wonder that even the old man who insists on being single can't explain his care for him.
The old man is an excellent cellist. Due to political reasons, he was sent from the symphony orchestra to the funeral home to play for the dead. The old man also earns some extra money by tracing the characters on the tombstone. He is struggling but also happy, and he has a few unfixed girlfriends. The old man resisted marriage, and was forced to agree to a fake marriage because of debts. Therefore, I have no psychological preparation for many children. After seeing the children, I tried to rush to get rid of them. After the child's grandmother passed away, he wrote to the children's orphanage. But as the days passed, the sympathy for the children became more affectionate, and even later, in order to prevent the orphanage from taking the children away, they ran away with the children to hide. The old man who doesn’t speak the language with the child calls a lover who speaks Russian, so that she can tell the child a story on the phone; take the child around to play; so that the child can watch the finished movie, buy enough Movie tickets for screenings. Taking care of the child when he was ill, the female colleagues who liked him were moved by his care for the child, and finally got together with him. While paying the child love, he also found love and happiness in the coexistence with the child, especially when the child took the initiative to hug him and kiss and call him father. In the end, the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Czech Republic was evacuated. The mother of the child had to come back and take the child away; the old man also resumed the symphony orchestra performance, and his girlfriend with him also gave birth to his own child.
This is a film full of warmth, which dilutes the cold politics into funny jokes, depicts the melting of the ice between people from the details, and is touching invisible in the calmness.
There is just a small question in his mind. The 5-year-old KOLYA often misses her grandma, and even when she takes a bath alone, she picks up the shower and talks to her on the phone, but never mentions her mother. I don’t know what the director’s intention is. Does it mean that this young child fully understands the situation in which he is stranded by his mother, or is there any political allusion, such as the unknown and helplessness of the turbulent revolution? Forget it, maybe I think too much. It's enough to have a good time.
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