My Sweet Little Village / Vesničko má středisková
My Sweet Little Village is a 1985 Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel. In 1987 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. At the 1986 Montreal World Film Festival, it won the Special Jury Award and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. At the Paris Film Festival in 1987 Hungarian actor János Bán received the best actor award. In a public survey conducted in January 2007 by the online news server Novinky.cz this movie was chosen by 22,4% of voters (approximately 66,000 people) as the most popular Czech comedy in history.
Plot
The film's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally backward young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit into the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
Cast
- Eugen Jegorov
- František Vláčil
- Jan Hartl
- Jan Hraběta
- Jan Kašpar
- János Bán
- Jiří Lír
- Jiří Schmitzer
- Jitka Asterová
- Josef Somr
- Július Satinský
- Klára Pollertová
- Ladislav Županič
- Libuše Šafránková
- Marián Labuda
- Míla Myslíková
- Milada Ježková
- Milan Šteindler
- Milena Dvorská
- Miloslav Štibich
- Oldřich Vlach
- Petr Brukner
- Petr Čepek
- Rudolf Hrušínský
- Rudolf Hrušínský Jr.
- Rudolf Hrušínský nejmladší
- Vida Skalská-Neuwirthová
- Vladimír Hrabánek
- Vlasta Jelínková
- Zdeněk Svěrák
- Zuzana Burianová
More details
| author | Zdeněk Svěrák |
|---|---|
| director | Jiří Menzel |
| editor | Jiří Brožek |
| genre | comedy drama |
| keywords | city life crooked politician doctor who second chance teenage son truck driver young man |
| musicBy | Jiří Šust |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |
| producer | Zbyněk Hloch |
| publisher | Ústřední půjčovna filmů |
| recordedAt | Háje Hlubočepy Křečovice Wenceslas Square |
| theme | comedy-drama |