The Elementary School
1991 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Elementary School (Czech: Obecná škola) is a 1991 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film directed by Jan Svěrák. The screenplay comes from the pen of his father Zdeněk Svěrák. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991[2] and is considered to belong among the best Czechoslovak films ever. A prequel, Barefoot, was released in 2017.
The Elementary School | |
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Directed by | Jan Svěrák |
Screenplay by | Zdeněk Svěrák |
Story by | Zdeněk Svěrák |
Produced by | Jaromír Lukáš |
Starring | Václav Jakoubek Jan Tříska |
Cinematography | František A. Brabec |
Edited by | Alois Fisárek |
Music by | Jiří Svoboda |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Lucernafilm - Alfa |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Language | Czech |
Box office | 13 million KČs[1] |
The film is set in the early post-war period, in a suburban elementary school in Prague's vicinity. A war hero is hired as a teacher, and asked to discipline an unruly class of boys. He soon earns their respect, but he is threatened with termination over his reputed sexual relationship with two highschool girls.