It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill

It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill is a 1992 Czech film directed by Juraj Jakubisko.

It’s better to be wealthy and healthy than poor and ill
Directed byJuraj Jakubisko
Written byJuraj Jakubisko
Produced byDeana Horváthová
StarringDeana Horváthová
Dagmar Veškrnová
Juraj Kukura
Vilma Jamnická
Ľubomír Paulovič
V. D. Hoai Phuong
Karin Haydu
CinematographyViktor Růžička
Music byJiří Bulis
Miloš Krkoška
Production
companies
Jakubisko film, Czech Television
Distributed byMirofilm
Release date
  • 11 November 1992 (1992-11-11)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguagesCzech
Slovak

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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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