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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

In Prague in the 1960s, a womanizing surgeon torn between a free-spirited mistress and the earnest woman he marries finds his life and loves upended by the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring. Adapted from Milan Kundera's novel.

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