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cast: 51
crew: 41
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# The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988): cast and crew

51 cast and 41 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Daniel Day-Lewis](https://film.one/person/daniel-day-lewis.md) as Tomas
- [Juliette Binoche](https://film.one/person/juliette-binoche.md) as Tereza
- [Lena Olin](https://film.one/person/lena-olin.md) as Sabina
- [Derek de Lint](https://film.one/person/derek-de-lint.md) as Franz
- [Stellan Skarsgård](https://film.one/person/stellan-skarsgard.md) as The Engineer
- [Erland Josephson](https://film.one/person/erland-josephson.md) as The Ambassador
- [Pavel Landovský](https://film.one/person/pavel-landovsky.md) as Pavel
- [Donald Moffat](https://film.one/person/donald-moffat.md) as Chief Surgeon
- [Daniel Olbrychski](https://film.one/person/daniel-olbrychski.md) as Interior Ministry Official
- [Tomasz Borkowy](https://film.one/person/tomasz-borkowy.md) as Jiri
- [Bruce Myers](https://film.one/person/bruce-myers.md) as Czech Editor
- [Pavel Slabý](https://film.one/person/pavel-slaby.md) as Pavel's Nephew
- Pascale Kalensky as Nurse Katja
- [Jacques Ciron](https://film.one/person/jacques-ciron.md) as Swiss Restaurant Manager
- Anne Lonnberg as Swiss Photographer
- [László Szabó](https://film.one/person/laszlo-szabo.md) as Russian Interrogator
- [Vladimír Valenta](https://film.one/person/vladimir-valenta.md) as Mayor
- Clovis Cornillac as Boy in Bar
- Consuelo De Haviland as Tall Brunette
- Leon Lissek as Bold Man in Bar
- Jacqueline Abraham-Vernier
- Judith Atwell
- Claudine Berg
- Jean-Claude Bouillon
- Miroslaw Beuer
- [Niven Busch](https://film.one/person/niven-busch.md)
- Margot Capelier
- Victor Chelkoff
- Monica Constandache
- Jean-Claude Dauphin as Swiss editor
- Dominique De Moncutt
- Bernard Lepinaux
- Josiane Lévêque
- Peter Majer
- Charles Millot as Lecturer in Geneva
- Gérard Moulévrier
- Jan Němec as Cameraman filming the tanks in Prague
- Charly Oleg
- Sylvie Plantard
- Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff
- Christine Potter
- Hana Maria Pravda
- Romano
- André Sanfratello
- Jiří Stanislav
- Milos Szoboda
- Helenka Vernier
- Marrian Walters
- Serge Delanoue as Danseur (uncredited)
- [Philip Kaufman](https://film.one/person/philip-kaufman.md) as Man walking on street outside Sabina's flat (uncredited)
- Isabelle Noérie as Student (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Philip Kaufman](https://film.one/person/philip-kaufman.md): Director
- Simon Brook: Third Assistant Director
- Robert Kechichian: Second Assistant Director
- Charles Paviot: First Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Philip Kaufman](https://film.one/person/philip-kaufman.md): Screenplay
- [Jean-Claude Carrière](https://film.one/person/jean-claude-carriere.md): Screenplay
- Milan Kundera: Novel

## Production

- Paul Zaentz: Associate Producer
- Bertil Ohlsson: Executive Producer
- [Saul Zaentz](https://film.one/person/saul-zaentz.md): Producer
- Frank Simeone: Unit Production Manager
- Daniel Szuster: Production Manager

## Camera

- [Sven Nykvist](https://film.one/person/sven-nykvist.md): Director of Photography
- Philippe Houdart: Camera Operator
- Bernard Noisette: Camera Operator

## Editing

- [Michael Magill](https://film.one/person/michael-magill.md): Editor
- [Vivien Hillgrove](https://film.one/person/vivien-hillgrove.md): Editor
- [Walter Murch](https://film.one/person/walter-murch.md): Editor
- B.J. Sears: Co-Editor

## Sound and music

- [Mark Adler](https://film.one/person/mark-adler.md): Original Music Composer
- David Franklin Bergad: Sound Editor
- Mark Berger: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- [Todd Boekelheide](https://film.one/person/todd-boekelheide.md): Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- [Luis Colina](https://film.one/person/luis-colina.md): Sound Effects Editor
- Ernie Fosselius: Foley Editor
- Richard Hymns: Sound Effects Editor
- Pat Jackson: Sound Effects Editor
- Ann Kroeber: Sound Effects
- Barbara McBane: Dialogue Editor
- Chris Newman: Production Sound Mixer
- David Parker: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Diana Pellegrini: Sound Editor
- Philip Rogers: Sound Recordist
- Alan Splet: Sound Designer

## Art

- [Pierre Guffroy](https://film.one/person/pierre-guffroy.md): Production Design

## Costume and make-up

- Suzanne Benoit: Key Makeup Artist
- Rosalina Da Silva: Makeup Artist
- Paul LeBlanc: Key Hair Stylist
- [Ann Roth](https://film.one/person/ann-roth.md): Costume Design

## Lighting

- George Michael Pantages: Gaffer

## Crew

- Rémy Julienne: Stunt Coordinator

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