| The Elementary School | |
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 Original release poster | |
| 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 |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Language | Czech |
| Box office | 13 million KČs[1] |
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 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.
- ^ "Václav Klaus mohl být filmovou hvězdou: Proč odmítl roli v Obecné škole?". Ahaonline.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.