Home, sweet home
Movie | |
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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 |
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Director | Jiří Menzel |
script | Zdeněk Svěrák |
music | Jiří Šust |
camera | Jaromír Šofr |
cut | Jiří Brožek |
occupation | |
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
- ↑ Home, sweet home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 7, 2017 .