The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film) - Quiz
  • 1. In what year was the film The Unbearable Lightness of Being released?
A) 1968
B) 1990
C) 1984
D) 1988
  • 2. The film is an adaptation of a novel written by whom?
A) Milan Kundera
B) Daniel Day-Lewis
C) Philip Kaufman
D) Jean-Claude Carrière
  • 3. Who directed the film?
A) Daniel Day-Lewis
B) Milan Kundera
C) Philip Kaufman
D) Jean-Claude Carrière
  • 4. Who co-wrote the screenplay with Philip Kaufman?
A) Daniel Day-Lewis
B) Jean-Claude Carrière
C) Juliette Binoche
D) Milan Kundera
  • 5. Which actor stars as Tomas?
A) Daniel Day-Lewis
B) Jean-Claude Carrière
C) Franz
D) Philip Kaufman
  • 6. Which actress plays Sabina?
A) Tereza
B) No other actress
C) Juliette Binoche
D) Lena Olin
  • 7. Which actress plays Tereza?
A) Sabina
B) Lena Olin
C) Juliette Binoche
D) No other actress
  • 8. What is Tomas's profession in communist Czechoslovakia?
A) Engineer
B) Brain surgeon
C) University professor
D) Photographer
  • 9. What is Sabina's profession in Prague?
A) Photographer
B) Artist
C) Waitress
D) Brain surgeon
  • 10. Where do Tomas and Tereza first encounter each other?
A) Prague
B) Geneva
C) The US
D) A spa town
  • 11. What is Tereza's profession when Tomas meets her?
A) University professor
B) Photographer
C) Waitress
D) Artist
  • 12. Who helps Tereza find work as a photographer?
A) The engineer
B) A Party official
C) Franz
D) Sabina
  • 13. What historical event prompts Tereza and Tomas to become more attached?
A) The drafting of the repudiation letter
B) The confiscation of Tomas's passport
C) The Soviet Army invasion of Czechoslovakia
D) The Prague Spring
  • 14. What does Tereza photograph during the confusion of the invasion?
A) Demonstrations against the Soviet forces
B) The StB secret police
C) Tomas and Sabina
D) The spa town
  • 15. To whom does Tereza hand the rolls of film to smuggle to the West?
A) The engineer
B) Sabina
C) Franz
D) Foreigners
  • 16. Which country do Tomas, Sabina, and Tereza flee to?
A) Germany
B) The US
C) Switzerland
D) France
  • 17. Who does Sabina meet in Geneva?
A) Franz
B) Tomas
C) A Party official
D) The engineer
  • 18. What is Franz's profession in Geneva?
A) Window washer
B) University professor
C) Engineer
D) Brain surgeon
  • 19. Why does Sabina abandon Franz?
A) She feels he would emotionally weigh her down
B) He works for the StB
C) She misses Prague
D) He refuses to leave his wife
  • 20. Why does Tereza leave Switzerland and return to Czechoslovakia?
A) She misses her photography job
B) She is summoned by the StB
C) She finds the Swiss inhospitable and Tomas womanizes
D) She wants to join Franz
  • 21. What happens to Tomas's passport when he follows Tereza back to Czechoslovakia?
A) It is confiscated
B) It is stolen by Sabina
C) It is renewed
D) It is lost in Geneva
  • 22. Why has Tomas been rendered a political dissident?
A) His affair with Sabina
B) His flight to Switzerland
C) His refusal to photograph protests
D) A scathing article he wrote criticizing the regime
  • 23. What does the régime demand Tomas sign?
A) A confession of espionage
B) A letter repudiating his article
C) A Party membership card
D) An application to work as a window washer
  • 24. What new job does Tomas find after being blacklisted from medicine?
A) Photographer
B) Engineer
C) Window washer
D) Waiters' assistant
  • 25. Who seduces Tomas while he is working his new job?
A) Franz's wife
B) The daughter of a high-ranking Party official
C) Sabina
D) Tereza
  • 26. Who propositions Tereza while she is working as a waitress?
A) A university professor
B) A foreign smuggler
C) An engineer
D) A high-ranking Party official
  • 27. What does Tereza fear the engineer might be?
A) A spy from Switzerland
B) A window washer
C) An informant for the StB secret police
D) A Party official
  • 28. Where does Tereza contemplate suicide?
A) In a spa town
B) At a canal bank
C) On a country road
D) In Geneva
  • 29. Who stops Tereza from committing suicide?
A) The engineer
B) Franz
C) Tomas
D) Sabina
  • 30. Where do Tomas and Tereza move to escape Prague city life?
A) A spa town
B) A village in the countryside
C) The US
D) Geneva
  • 31. Who welcomes Tomas and Tereza to the village?
A) An old patient of Tomas's
B) Franz
C) A high-ranking Party official
D) Sabina
  • 32. Where does Sabina go after leaving Switzerland?
A) The US
B) Vienna
C) Prague
D) Cunha
  • 33. How does Sabina learn of Tomas and Tereza's fate?
A) Franz tells her
B) A newspaper article
C) A letter
D) A phone call
  • 34. What happens to Tomas and Tereza according to the letter received by Sabina?
A) They successfully flee back to Switzerland
B) They are arrested by the StB
C) They separate permanently
D) They are killed in an automobile accident
  • 35. What vehicle are Tomas and Tereza driving just before the accident?
A) A police vehicle
B) A train
C) A farm truck
D) A luxury car
  • 36. What is the weather like during the final scene of the film?
A) Raining
B) Sunny
C) Foggy
D) Snowing
  • 37. How does Tomas express his feelings to Tereza just before the accident?
A) He expresses regret over his confiscated passport
B) He peacefully expresses how happy and relieved he finally feels
C) He complains about the village life
D) He worries about the StB following them
  • 38. What nationality was the production of the film?
A) American
B) British
C) French
D) Czech
  • 39. What kind of cast does the film feature?
A) Exclusively Czech
B) Entirely American
C) Strictly British
D) Largely European
  • 40. In which country was the film shot?
A) Switzerland
B) France
C) Austria
D) Germany
  • 41. What was combined with new material shot in Lyon to depict the Soviet invasion?
A) Archival footage
B) Documentary voiceovers
C) Animated sequences
D) News clippings
  • 42. In which French city was new material shot to depict the Soviet invasion?
A) Lyon
B) Paris
C) Luxeuil-les-Bains
D) Boulogne
  • 43. Where was the scene shot in which Tomas has sex with a woman while cleaning windows?
A) Thermal baths in Luxeuil-les-Bains
B) Administrative Appeal Court
C) Hôtel de Beauvais
D) Boulogne Studios
  • 44. In which arrondissement of Paris was the Hôtel de Beauvais located?
A) 16th arrondissement
B) 8th arrondissement
C) 1st arrondissement
D) 4th arrondissement
  • 45. What is the Hôtel de Beauvais now used as?
A) A public library
B) A museum
C) A luxury hotel
D) Administrative Appeal Court
  • 46. Filming also took place at the thermal baths in which location?
A) Luxeuil-les-Bains
B) Paris
C) Lyon
D) Boulogne
  • 47. In which department are the thermal baths where filming took place located?
A) Bouches-du-Rhône
B) Rhône
C) Haute-Saône
D) Seine-et-Marne
  • 48. Where were the interior scenes of the film shot?
A) The Criterion Collection
B) Hôtel de Beauvais
C) Warner Home Video
D) Boulogne Studios
  • 49. Which commentator argued that the film must be viewed in a different light with the book as only one source of inspiration?
A) Walter Murch
B) Jean-Claude Carrière
C) Sven Nykvist
D) Cattrysse Patrick
  • 50. Which composer's classical pieces are extensively used in the film's soundtrack?
A) Leoš Janáček
B) Vojtěch Jochec
C) Marta Kubišová
D) Philip Kaufman
  • 51. Who performed the Beatles' song "Hey Jude" in Czech for the film?
A) Vojtěch Jochec
B) Jarmila Šuláková
C) Lena Olin
D) Marta Kubišová
  • 52. What traditional Czechoslovak folk song is featured in the film?
A) "Joj, Joj, Joj"
B) "Hey Jude"
C) "Lightness of Being"
D) "On an Overgrown Path"
  • 53. What approval rating does the film hold on Rotten Tomatoes?
A) 50%
B) 100%
C) 73%
D) 86%
  • 54. On how many reviews is the Rotten Tomatoes approval rating based?
A) 50 reviews
B) 29 reviews
C) 17 reviews
D) 100 reviews
  • 55. Based on how many critics was the Metacritic score assigned?
A) 5 critics
B) 100 critics
C) 29 critics
D) 17 critics
  • 56. What type of reviews did Metacritic's score indicate?
A) "Mostly unfavorable"
B) "Generally favorable" reviews
C) "Mixed or average"
D) "Universal acclaim"
  • 57. How many Academy Awards was the film nominated for?
A) Four
B) One
C) Three
D) Two
  • 58. Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography?
A) Sven Nykvist
B) Philip Kaufman
C) Jean-Claude Carrière
D) Walter Murch
  • 59. What rank did the American Film Institute give the film in its 2002 list AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions?
A) 100th
B) 87th
C) 73rd
D) 86th
  • 60. Who released a digitally restored version of the film on DVD in November 1999?
A) Academy Film Archive
B) Warner Home Video
C) The Criterion Collection
D) Boulogne Studios
  • 61. When was the 2-disc special edition DVD re-released by Warner Home Video?
A) 2019
B) February 28, 2006
C) November 1999
D) December 29, 1988
  • 62. Which organization preserved The Unbearable Lightness of Being in 2019?
A) Academy Film Archive
B) American Film Institute
C) The Criterion Collection
D) Warner Home Video
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