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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

5.4(10)19921h 48m1

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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Released
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Language
Czech
  • pregnancy
  • czechoslovakia
  • surrealism
  • road trip
  • communism
  • satirical
  • ambivalent
  • farcical

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Czechoslovakia

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Availability for Czechia. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

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  • Lepsi TV logoLepsi TV

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Release dates

  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical12+Re-release28 Nov 2002
    • Physical1 Dec 2004
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical11 Sept 1992

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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick was released on 11 September 1992.

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