It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

1992•1h 48m•4.9/10

ComedyDrama

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🎬TMDb

4.9/10(8)

A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.

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MiroFilm

Language

SK

Status

Released

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Cast

Deana Horváthová

Deana Horváthová

Nona

Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

Ester

Juraj Kukura

Juraj Kukura

Robert

Vilma Jamnická

Margita

Ľubomír Paulovič

Ľubomír Paulovič

Viliam

V. D. Hoai Phuong

Sajgon

Stano Dančiak

Stano Dančiak

kpt. Klinec

Tomáš Žilinčík

Laco

Pavel Nový

Pavel Nový

Vekslák

Vladimír Jedľovský

Vladimír Jedľovský

Oľga Zöllnerová

Zdeněk Dušek

Zdeněk Dušek

Dušan Lenci

Eva Mária Chalupová

Eva Mária Chalupová

Ján Barto

Hana Packertová

Hana Packertová

Komisárka

Jiří Pecha

Jiří Pecha

František Velecký

František Velecký

Michal Gučík

Michal Gučík

Hana Militká

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