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Obecná skola (1991)

| Comedy, Drama, Family | 1 August 1991 (Czechoslovakia)
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The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is ... See full summary »

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Igor Hnizdo
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Fanous Soucek, Eda's father
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Schoolmaster
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Tram driver's wife
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Tram driver
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Maxová, teacher
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Cejkova, Tonda's mother
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Cejka, Tonda's father (as Rudolf Hrusínsky Jr.)
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Kveta Fabianova
Miroslava Skudrnová ...
Reza Fabianova
Alice Dvoráková ...
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Magician Radzi Tamil aka Josef Mrázek
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Plíha - Tonda's Neighbor
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The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women. Written by Mattias Thuresson

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Sweet, funny but also dark.
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Igor Hnizdo (Jan Triska) arrives as a new tough teacher to work in the elementary school in a small Czechoslovakian town just after the WWII. The movie reflects many of the dark aspects of the Czechoslovakian history. They're being told with a lot of sense for humour but in fact are not so funny because of the historical facts. Scholars are growing within the time background of the 1945 (end of the war) and 1948 (Communistic overthrown) which makes otherwise sweet and funny movie somehow dark from perspective that you know how bad future lies in front of them.
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