Reviews

Zdenek Sverak is one of best Czech directors and his movies belong to classical movies of Czech film archive and lots of his movies are connected to people brains and hearts very much. But those movies were written without any hidden purpose, just to make movie, and they were great (but with Czech humor and based on Czech mentality and history, it means the movies were not targeted on the international scene where they could not get much understanding). On the other hand, Kolja is movie made for commercial purpose for international scene, it is not Sverak's movie, but it is movie how Sverak expected people in US and western Europe would like to watch. It is too sweet and too heart breaking story. I do not have to see this movie again and I voted for it by number 6.

This is a great typical movie of the group around Steindler, Vavra, Hanak. They make some sort of artistic ironic humor which is mostly based on situations and dialogs. It also builds dialogs and situation based on the Czech mentality and Czech history, I do not believe that this sort of movies can be interesting to other, than Czech, people. But for me it was great.