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Where was The Unbearable Lightness of Being filmed?

1988 film, directed by Philip Kaufman.

  • Paris

The story is set in Prague, about 548 miles (882 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Prague; Geneva; Switzerland
Filmed in
Paris
Distance
About 548 miles (882 km) between Prague and the nearest filming location.
Distance
About 307 miles (495 km) between Switzerland and the nearest filming location.
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About The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Released
1988
Director
Philip Kaufman
Cast
Daniel Day-LewisJuliette BinocheLena OlinDerek de LintErland JosephsonDonald MoffatDaniel OlbrychskiStellan SkarsgårdPavel LandovskýBruce Myers
Genre
EroticDramaRomance
Based on
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor; National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director; National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film; Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography and 2 more

Tomas, a successful brain surgeon in communist Czechoslovakia, is pursuing an affair with equally carefree Sabina, an artist in Prague.

Tomas asks Sabina to help Tereza find work as a photographer.

Unwilling to face the stultifying police state that is replacing the Prague Spring, Tomas, Sabina, and Tereza flee Czechoslovakia for Switzerland; Sabina leaves first, later followed by the hesitant Tomas and Tereza.

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