Completed - CZECH - Drama - 104 minutes
EMPTIES is the last in a trilogy from director Jan Sverák and his father, screenwriter/actor Zdenek Sverák. The trilogy began with the Academy Award-nominated ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, exploring childhood, continued into adulthood with the Academy Award-winning KOLYA, and now comes to completion with EMPTI
Year of production : 2007 Director(s) : Jan SVERAK
Joseph teaches literature in a secondary school in Prague. One day he is forced into retirement but he refuses to take it lying down. He finds work at the bottle-return counter in a supermarket and discovers a new community who begin to rely on him. Once more his life has meaning, but Joseph neglects his wife, who feels she’s losing him. EMPTIES is a funny, touching story of love in old age, which broke Czech box office records upon release, becoming the first film ever - Czech or Hollywood blockbuster - to gross US$4 million in the Czech Republic in six weeks on release.
Country(ies) : CZECH REPUBLIC, UNITED KINGDOM
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