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HISTORY In the movie, ''Krakozhia'' (also misspelled "Cracozhia" or "Cacosia") is the tiniest republic in Eastern Europe and may have been a former Soviet republic. The natives speak the Krakozhian language. From January 16 2004 to November 2004 the country was in Civil War . When the war began, the President of the country was held hostage. As such, a new regime is installed, one which the United States did not recognize. This causes problems for Viktor Navorski, a Krakozhian who is en route to New York City at the time. Landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport , he finds his Passport and Visa are now useless, and he can neither enter the US nor return to Krakozhia because Krakozhia has sealed its borders. As such, Viktor must stay in the airport terminal for nine months, after which peace is declared in Krakozhia and he is able to return home. Little else is known about Krakozhia, except that there was a lot of fighting which made the international news. We hear of the "northern area" being taken by rebels. Krakozhia has a national anthem almost exactly like that of Albania save for the lyrics. Navorski's and the name of Belarusian city Homel . Curiously, the Belarusian name on the driver's license is ''Гуліна Гульнара Надыраўна'' (''Gulina Gulnara Nadirawna''); presumably the Belarusian driver's license shot in the movie belonged to a Belarusian girl who immigrated to the USA {Link without Title} . The language which Hanks' character speaks in the film, "Krakozhian," is supposedly close to or a dialect of Russian to the point of mutual understanding, but is actually slightly-accented Bulgarian . Tom Hank's wife, Rita Wilson, whose father is Bulgarian, is reported to have coached Hanks in Bulgarian in the course of the shooting of the film. |
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