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My Sweet Little Village
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type
Movie
language
Czech
duration
103 min
genre
comedy-drama
director
Jiří Menzel
Score
5 / 10

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.

Plot

The film's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man with mental illness, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as a truck driver assistant to Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family and Otík's aunt Hrabětová take care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two truck 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. 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 subordinate of the Dřevoplech company director to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house for his boss, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.

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    author
    director Jiří Menzel
    editor Jiří Brožek
    genre comedy-drama
    keywords city life discover doctor who inherit mental illness second chance teenage son truck driver young man
    musicBy Jiří Šust
    nomination Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
    producer Zbyněk Hloch
    publisher Ústřední půjčovna filmů
    recordedAt Háje Hlubočepy Křečovice Wenceslas Square