The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American romantic drama film, an adaptation of the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean-Claude Carrière, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. The film portrays Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring, and the characters' romantic lives amid the Soviet repression that resulted from the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.