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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

 1988
 171 minutes (2 hrs 51 mins)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Philip Kaufman

Starring

Daniel Day-Lewis · Juliette Binoche · Lena Olin · Derek de Lint · Erland Josephson · Pavel Landovsky

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 5th February 1988

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 15th Apr '88
  • Debut position: 3
  • Highest position: 3
  • Debut gross: £183.5 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 4

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 1st Apr '88
  • Debut position: 17
  • Highest position: 14
  • Debut gross: $517.6 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 4

Chart position history

UK box office

15 Apr, 1988
3
22 Apr, 1988
5
29 Apr, 1988
7
6 May, 1988
7

US box office

4 Mar, 1998
15
11 Mar, 1998
14

Global box office

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £422.2 Thousand
US total gross
United States Flag  $5.3 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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Directed By

Director
Role
Philip Kaufman
Directed By

Starring

Actor
Character
Daniel Day-Lewis
Tomas
Juliette Binoche
Tereza
Lena Olin
Sabina
Derek de Lint
Franz
Erland Josephson
The Ambassador
Pavel Landovsky
Pavel
Donald Moffat
Chief Surgeon
Daniel Olbrychski
Interior Ministry Official
Stellan Skarsgård
The Engineer
Tomasz Borkowy
Jiri
Bruce Myers
Czech Editor
Pavel Slaby
Pavel's Nephew
Pascale Kalensky
Nurse Katja
Jacques Ciron
Swiss Restaurant Manager
Anne Lonnberg
Swiss Photographer
Laszlo Szabo
Russian Interrogator
Vladimir Valenta
Mayor
Clovis Cornillac
Boy in Bar
Leon Lissek
Bald Man in Bar
Consuelo De Haviland
Tall Brunette
Jacqueline Abraham-Vernier
Judith Atwell
Claudine Berg
Jean-Claude Bouillon
Miroslaw Beuer
Niven Busch
Margot Capelier
Victor Chelkoff
Monica Constandache
Jean-Claude Dauphin
Swiss editor
Dominique De Moncutt
Bernard Lepinaux
Josiane Leveque
Peter Majer
Charles Millot
Lecturer in Geneva
Gerard Moulevrier
Jan Nemec
cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
Charly Oleg
Sylvie Plantard
Olga Baidar-Poliakoff
Christine Potter
Hana Maria Pravda
Romano
Andre Sanfratello
Jiri Stanislav
Milos Szoboda
Helenka Vernier
Marrian Walters
Serge Delanoue
Danseur
Philip Kaufman
Man walking on street outside Sabina's flat
Isabelle Noerie
Student