The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Directed by Philip Kaufman

Film Synopsis

Prague, in the winter of 1967.  Tomas is a young and talented brain  surgeon who loves his work almost as much as he loves women.  An inveterate womaniser, he revels in the power he has over the opposite sex, but whilst he has many affairs the only one that satisfies him is his present liaison with Sabina, a painter who pleases him on both the physical and intellectual plains.  During a stay in the provinces, he encounters a pretty young serving girl named Tereza and is so beguiled by her that he feels impelled to take her as his wife.  Happy though the marriage is, it does not in any way lessen Tomas's craving for other women and he continues having affairs, much to his wife's distress and disgust.  As the Russian tanks roll into the Czechoslovakian capital, the couple flee to Geneva.  It is here that Tomas renews his acquaintance with Sabina, an encounter that makes his exile more delightful than it might otherwise have been.  Unable to bear her husband's infidelity any longer, Tereza leaves him and heads back to Prague...