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EMPTIES (VRATNE LAHVE)
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Completed - CZECH - Drama - 104 minutes

Log Line

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

Synopsis

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.

Production

Country(ies) : CZECH REPUBLIC, UNITED KINGDOM

CROATIA DISCOVERY FILM
FINLAND CINEMA MONDO
GERMANY Jan 24, 2008 KOOL FILMDISTRI
HUNGARY MTVA
NETHERLAND BENELUX FILM DI
SPAIN A CONTRACORRIEN


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