It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill
- Lepší je být bohatý a zdravý než chudý a nemocný (more)
Directed by:
Juraj JakubiskoScreenplay:
Juraj JakubiskoCinematography:
Viktor RůžičkaCast:
Deana Horváthová-Jakubisková, Dagmar Havlová, Juraj Kukura, Ľubomír Paulovič, Vilma Jamnická, Stanislav Dančiak, Pavel Nový, Hana Packertová, Jiří Pecha (more)Plots(1)
The third installment of Juraj Jakubisko's loosely connected 'trilogy of freedom and happiness' (Birds, Orphans and Fools, and Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself) updates the films' central theme in conjunction with the new political and economic situation which arose after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Once again Jakubisko uses a love triangle as the foreground story for his concerns about society, and diagrams burgeoning Czechoslovak democracy as a tragicomic satire. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Eva Mária Chalupová
Slovak state
Best movies:
Midnight Mass (1962)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
Michal Gučík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Staroružová dráma (1989) (TV movie)
Posledná zastávka (1986) (TV movie)
Otec (1994) (TV movie)
Hana Militká
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Kolya (1996)
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Naši furianti (2006) (theatrical recording)
Jozef Husár
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Pacho, the Thief of Hybe (1975)
Anton Živčic
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
Gendúrovci (1994) (TV movie)
Reverend (1989) (TV movie)
Miroslav Topoľnický
Best movies:
František Kovár
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Adolf Eichmann (1988) (TV movie)
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Michaela Čobejová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Na konci hry (2002) (TV movie)
Manželstvo na cimpr - campr (1992) (TV movie)
Dobrodinec (1991) (TV movie)