Czech heart-tugger about a lecherous old cellist who agrees, for a fee, to a mock marriage with a Russian, and then gets stuck with her five-year-old son when she joins her true love in West Germany. (This is 1988.) Schmaltzy, but full of lifelike detail and sensitive observation: e.g., the terrors of an escalator from the viewpoint of an unaccompanied toddler. With Zdenek Sverak, who also wrote the script; directed by Jan Sverak, son of Zdenek. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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