This small and beautiful film from the Czech Republic is one of the more touching and uplifting in recent decades. The story concerns a cellist and avowed bachelor, brilliantly played the director's father, and script co-author Zdenak Sverak, who, needing money, marries a Russian woman for a fee so she can become a Czech citizen. She immediately "disappears" and the musician is stuck with her little boy, Kolya, young Andrej Shalimon is a delight, and was found in Moscow at the last minute after the director had rejected all other auditioners. This is a wonderful film, with a beautiful story and shot that way with an uncanny eye for clarity.