Directed by Jan Sverak, 1996, 105 min.

Czech with English subtitles 

As part of the 5th EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) Film Festival, the FNCC presents:

As the Cold War winds down, former concert cellist Louka  barely makes ends meet providing accompaniment at funerals after being blacklisted from his much cushier job with the Prague Philharmonic. For a fee, he marries a Russian woman so she can become a Czech citizen, but she immediately emigrates to West Germany, sticking the bachelor with her sickly 5-year-old Kolya and a host of official questions about the sham marriage.