The Unbearable Lightness of Being - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Timing:
2:51 (171 min)
6.9/10
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7.3/10
10975
10975
7.2/10
41000
41000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Paul Zaentz
Producer
Executive Producer
Bertil Ohlsson
Executive Producer
Editor
B.J. Sears
Editor
Michael Magill
Editor
Vivien Hillgrove Gilliam
Editor
Costume Design
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
Makeup Artist
Rosalina Da Silva
Makeup Artist
Key Makeup Artist
Suzanne Benoit
Key Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Mark Berger
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Todd Boekelheide
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
David Parker
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
Mark Adler
Original Music Composer
Unit Production Manager
Frank Simeone
Unit Production Manager
Associate Producer
Paul Zaentz
Associate Producer
Second Assistant Director
Robert Kechichian
Second Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Philippe Houdart
Camera Operator
Bernard Noisette
Camera Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Luis Colina
Sound Effects Editor
Richard Hymns
Sound Effects Editor
Pat Jackson
Sound Effects Editor
First Assistant Director
Charles Paviot
First Assistant Director
Production Manager
Daniel Szuster
Production Manager
Screenplay
Novel
Sound Designer
Alan Splet
Sound Designer
Dialogue Editor
Barbara McBane
Dialogue Editor
Foley Editor
Ernie Fosselius
Foley Editor
Key Hair Stylist
Paul LeBlanc
Key Hair Stylist
Third Assistant Director
Simon Brook
Third Assistant Director
Gaffer
George Michael Pantages
Gaffer
Production Sound Mixer
Sound Recordist
Philip Rogers
Sound Recordist
Co-Editor
B.J. Sears
Co-Editor
Sound Editor
David Franklin Bergad
Sound Editor
Diana Pellegrini
Sound Editor
Sound Effects
Ann Kroeber
Sound Effects
Author
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, a French writer of Czech origin. Kundera disliked this adaptation so much that he categorically refused to participate in the film's promotional campaign.
- The first version of the film was almost two hours long, but it turned out to be incomprehensible. The film's director, Philip Kaufman, was asked to insert scenes he had previously cut. The next day, a version was ready that went into release. It is believed that Kaufman deliberately showed a short and somewhat confusing version so that he would be allowed to release the full version, lasting almost 3 hours.
- Miloš Forman (1932-2018) personally offered Philip Kaufman the opportunity to direct this film after learning of the interest major film studios were beginning to show in adapting Milan Kundera's 1982 novel. Forman himself did not dare to direct it because he had family in Czechoslovakia and feared repression, as the country was then under Soviet occupation.
- Lena Olin met the lead actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, on the first day of filming. On that very day, they had to appear nude before the camera and perform a love scene.
- The scenes depicting the Soviet Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 used both documentary footage from that time and footage of a reconstruction of the events. The documentary footage was shot by young people. One of them appears in the film – he is the one being beaten by Soviet soldiers and having his filmed footage confiscated.
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