The elementary school (film)

Movie
German title	The elementary school
Original title	Obecná škola
Country of production	Czechoslovakia
original language	Czech
Publishing year	1991
length	104 minutes
Rod
Director	Jan Svěrák
script	Zdeněk Svěrák
music	Jiří Svoboda
camera	Jaroslav Brabec; or FA Brabec
cut	Alois Fišárek
occupation
	Václav Jakoubek : Eda Souček; Zdeněk Svěrák : Mr. Souček, Eda's father; Libuše Šafránková : Mrs. Součková, Eda's mother; Radoslav Budác : Tonda, Eda's friend; Jan Tříska : Igor Hnízdo; Rudolf Hrušínský senior : school director; Karel Kachyňa : School inspector; Jiří Menzel : doctor; Rudolf Hrušínský junior : Cejka;
chronology
	Successor → ; Kolya

The elementary school (original title: Obecná škola ) is a 1991 Czech-Slovak film directed by Jan Svěrák . The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1992 in the category of Best Foreign Language Film .

action

The script was written by Zdeněk Svěrák , the director's father, and was based on his memories. The film takes place in the immediate post-war period of 1945 and 1946. The story is told from the perspective of ten-year-old Eda. Eda lives with his friend Tonda, who is the same age, in a village outside of Prague . Her school class is driving the teacher at her school to quit. The teacher is replaced by the strict teacher Igor Hnízdo, who portrays himself as a womanizer and anti-fascist , but is an impostor.

criticism

The lexicon of international film assesses the elementary school as:

“An ironic, weird retrospective of childhood that empathetically adopts the point of view of a ten-year-old; at the same time an interesting contribution to the topic of authority and seducibility. "

useful information

The film, based on the memoirs of his father, was Jan Svěrák's debut as a director and earned him a nomination for an Oscar in 1992. The film is the beginning of a long collaboration between father and son, which resulted in several feature films and a documentary about the father. Together with Kolya (for whom Jan Svěrák finally received the Oscar) and Leergut , the film is considered a trilogy of ages .

With the film Barefoot over the stubble field , Jan Svěrák shot a prehistory of the elementary school in 2017 , which takes place at the time of the German occupation during the Second World War .

Web links

The elementary school in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

[1] The elementary school. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 27, 2018 .

[2] The elementary school in the Internet Movie Database (English)

[3] 27th Film Festival Cottbus - Always close to the Oscar , Lausitzer Zeitung from 10 November 2017.

[MAZ-4] Zdenek and Jan Sverak in Cottbus , Märkische Allgemeine from November 7, 2017.

[5] The elementary school. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 27, 2018 .

[6] The elementary school on Prisma.de

[7] Portrait of Jan Svěrák on Kino.de

[8] Empty bottles, full cinemas , Spiegel Online from January 29, 2008.