He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981.
His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979 and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
The film played at San Sebastian, New York and Locarno.
Czech-born French writer Milan Kundera in Milan. Milan, 1980sGetty
The 1988 movie adaptation by Philip Kaufman starred Daniel Day Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin.
The film was nominated for two Oscars and scored Kaufman a BAFTA win for best adapted screenplay.
