It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick
Visit website5.3/10 • 6
1992-09-11 • 1h 48m
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.
- Directors
- Juraj Jakubisko
- Writters
- Juraj Jakubisko
- Editors
- Juraj Jakubisko, Jiří Brožek
It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick
Visit website1992-09-11 • 1h 48m
5.3/10 • 6
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.
- Directors
- Juraj Jakubisko
- Writters
- Juraj Jakubisko
- Editors
- Juraj Jakubisko, Jiří Brožek
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsDeana Horváthová
Nona
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová
Ester
Juraj Kukura
Robert
Vilma Jamnická
Margita
Ľubomír Paulovič
Viliam
Stano Dančiak
kpt. Klinec
Pavel Nový
Vekslák
Hana Packertová
Komisárka
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- Original Language
- Slovak
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- Keywords
- pregnancyczechoslovakiasurrealismroad tripcommunism