This gentle comedy takes place just after the WWII, during the school year 1945/46. Ten-year-old Eda and his friend Tonda attend an elementary school in the Prague suburbs. They are pupils of an all-boys class, famous for its bad behavior. No wonder their teacher is driven out of her mind one day and is replaced by Igor Hnízdo. He is a tough disciplinarian but has a big weakness – his interest in women. The Elementary School received an Oscar nomination in 1992 for Best Foreign Film. Written by the director’s father, Zdeněk Svěrák, the film is an autobiographical mosaic of his childhood memories. It is a celebration of boyhood imagination and the optimistic atmosphere, very much reflecting the post-1989 Velvet Revolution period in which the film was made.

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