Home, sweet home

Movie
German title	Home, sweet home
Original title	Vesničko má středisková
Country of production	Czechoslovakia
original language	Czech
Publishing year	1986
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Jiří Menzel
script	Zdeněk Svěrák
music	Jiří Šust
camera	Jaromír Šofr
cut	Jiří Brožek
occupation
János Bán : Otík Marián Labuda : Pávek Klára Pollertová : daughter of Pávek Rudolf Hrušínský senior : Dr. Skruzný Rudolf Hrušínský junior : Drápalík Rudolf Hrušínský the youngest : Honza Kalina Petr Čepek : Turek Libuše Šafránková : Jana Turková Josef Somr : Director Jan Hartl Miloslav Štibich Oldrich Vlach Milena Dvorská Ladislav Županič Július Satinský Zdeněk Svěrák Oldrich Vlach u. a.

Heimat, süße Heimat (alternative title in the GDR Dörfchen, mein Dörfchen ) is a melancholy comedy by director Jiří Menzel , shot in 1985 in Czechoslovakia. It was nominated for an Oscar as a foreign film .

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The truck driver Pávek, short and fat, and his co-driver Otik, long and thin, are an unequal couple. You live in a small village "at the end of the world". Because Otik is mentally handicapped, his work colleague Pávek and the villagers worry about him. When Otik, after an argument with Pávek, decides to move to the capital Prague alone, everyone realizes what they will lose with his departure. Everyone tries to keep Otik in his little village, in his sweet home.

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : A cheerful, unspectacular and worth considering glimpse into everyday worries and joys as well as human weaknesses, which casually pleads for fundamental “truths” such as togetherness, love, forbearance and humor.

Awards

• Special Prize of the Film Festival in Montreal
• Martin Frič Prize at the 37th FFP summer, 1986

Web links

• Home Sweet Home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Prisma TV Guide
• Home, sweet home In: Kinobox.cz (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home, sweet home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 7, 2017 .