

Love Is Love
2012-01-19 · 109 min · ★ 3.5
Maruska is a blind girl and student at the Conservatory of Music who dreams of love and having a family despite her blindness. Her dream guy has curly blonde hair and blue eyes but she ends up falling in love with the dark eyed, swarthy Marek. Maruska lives with her overly protective grandfather whom is preocupied with his long-lost love. Maruska’s neighbor and best friend is constantly struggling with his headstrong mother as she refuses to accept that her son is gay. She blames everyone else - even her husband - for her son's "deviation." The fate of all main characters is unexpectedly intertwined and told through humorous and touching situations laced with subtle irony and hyperbole. Just as in life, with its funny situations and difficult tests, unexpected revelations and surprising twists, all characters will experience times when they behave blindly and forget to listen to their hearts.
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- Directors
- Milan Cieslar
- Production companies
- Happy Celluloid, Česká televize, Flamesite
- Countries
- Czech Republic
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Aneta KrejčíkováMaruška
Petr NárožnýVlastimil, Maruščin dědeček
Simona StašováZdena, Honzova matka
Ondřej VetchýKarel, Honzův otec
Petr VančuraHonza
Eliška BalzerováLibuška
Rudolf Hrušínskýpan Jehlička
Tomáš Vaněk
Jaromír Nosek
Jenovéfa Boková
Barbora Poláková
Roman Štabrňák
Václav Jílek
Perla Kučerová
Zdeněk Vencl
Michal Kern
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