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The Elementary School(Movie, 1991)

Original title: "Obecná škola" (Czech/CS)
1h 40min | Genres: Comedy, Drama
The Elementary SchoolRating: 3.7/5 (with 2020 votes)
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 and is considered to belong among the best Czechoslovak films ever. A prequel, Barefoot, was released in 2017. 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. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Elementary School

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About The Elementary School

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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OBECNA SKOLA Trailer HD(Trailer, 2:29)

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Additional Information

Production country: Czechoslovakia
Plays in: Prague
Original language: Czech (CS)
Spoken languages: Czech (CS)
Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 08/08/1991
Cast: Libuše Šafránková, Rudolf Hrušínský, Eva Holubová, Jan Tříska, Zdeněk Svěrák, Irena Pavlásková, Ondřej Vetchý, Daniela Kolářová, Rudolf Hrušínský Jr., Petr Čepek, Bolek Polívka, Oldřich Vlach, Petr Brukner, Karla Chadimová, Bořivoj Penc, Jiří Menzel, Karel Kachyňa, Miroslava Pleštilová, Stanislav Hájek, Alice Šnirychová-Dvořáková, Zdeněk Mucha, Václav Chalupa, Marek Pelc, Václav Jakoubek, Tat'ána Puttová, Michal Škrabal, Viktor Nejedlý ml., Radoslav Budáč, Jaroslav Slánský, Rudolf Hammer, Zlata Adamovská, Jan Hraběta
Director: Jan Svěrák
Screenwriter: Zdeněk Svěrák
Film Editor: Alois Fišárek
Director of Photography: František Brabec
Composer: Jiří Svoboda
Production Designer: Vladimír Labský
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Los dueños del colegio"
"Ecole Elementaire"
Keywords: 1940s, school, teacher

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