For the Genii commander from Stargate Atlantis, see Acastus Kolya. Kolya is also the Russian nickname for Nikolay Kolya is an award-winning 1996 Czech film drama about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. Synopsis The action takes place during the last years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, at a time when the Soviet bloc begins to disintegrate. Franti?ek Louka, a middle-aged Czech man dedicated to bachelorhood and the pursuit of women, is a concert cellist struggling to eke out a living by playing funerals at the Prague crematorium. He has lost his previous job at the philharmonic orchestra due to having been half-accidentally blacklisted as "politically unreliable" by the authorities. A friend offers him a chance to earn a great deal of money through a sham marriage to a Russian woman to enable her to stay in Czechoslovakia. However, the woman uses her Czechosl

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