It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick
Lepšie byť bohatý a zdravý ako chudobný a chorý
Watch it's better to be healthy and wealthy than poor and sick on 123Movies. 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.
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Director: Juraj Jakubisko
- Cast: Deana Horváthová, Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová, Juraj Kukura, Vilma Jamnická, Ľubomír Paulovič, V. D. Hoai Phuong, Stano Dančiak, Tomáš Žilinčík, Pavel Nový, Vladimír Jedľovský, Oľga Zöllnerová, Zdeněk Dušek, Dušan Lenci, Eva Mária Chalupová, Ján Barto, Hana Packertová, Jiří Pecha, František Velecký, Michal Gučík, Hana Militká, J. Třebatická,
