The Unbearable Lightness of Being
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1988 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Philip Kaufman |
| Cast | Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson |
| Genre | Romantic drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | – |
| Español | La insoportable levedad del ser | La insoportable levedad del ser |
| Français | L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être | L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être |
| Deutsch | Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins | Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins |
| Português | A Insustentável Leveza do Ser | A Insustentável Leveza do Ser |
| Italiano | L’insostenibile leggerezza dell’essere | L’insostenibile leggerezza dell’essere |
| Русский | Невыносимая лёгкость бытия | Nevynosimaya lyogkost bytiya |
| 中文（简体） | 布拉格之恋 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 布拉格之戀 | – |
| 한국어 | 프라하의 봄 | Peuraha-ui Bom |
| ไทย | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| Tiếng Việt | Đời nhẹ khôn kham | Đời nhẹ khôn kham |
| Bahasa Indonesia | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| 日本語 | 存在の耐えられない軽さ | Sonzai no Taerarenai Karusa |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which erotic freedom and historical weight collide within a life forced to choose between lightness and responsibility
■ Synopsis
A surgeon’s pursuit of erotic freedom is transformed by love, exile, political repression, and the burden of irreversible choices.
■ RECIPE Tags
#LightnessAndWeight #EroticFreedom #HistoricalBurden #IrreversibleChoice
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Can freedom remain light when it wounds another person?
Reason: Sexual detachment becomes ethically unstable once love creates responsibility.
Related Film: Jules and Jim - Middle: Can private life remain private under political history?
Reason: Intimacy is absorbed into the pressure of occupation, exile, and public consequence.
Related Film: Doctor Zhivago - Core: Is weight the condition that gives love meaning?
Reason: The film moves from lightness as liberation to chosen burden as existential form.
Related Film: The English Patient
■ Secondary Axes
- Desire under history: Erotic life becomes inseparable from political rupture.
Related Film: The Conformist - Exile of the self: Leaving one world does not free the self from its unresolved attachments.
Related Film: The Passenger
■ Person
- Director: Philip Kaufman
- Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson
■ Structural Tags
#FreedomResponsibilityCollision #HistoryPrivateLifeFusion #ChoiceWeight
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanFilm #1988Film #NovelAdaptation
