Overview
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the Polish Academy Award for Best European Film (2009)
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Filming locations
Filmed in Prague
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Setting
Set in Prague
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Series
Part of the Trilogy about maturation series
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Music
Music by Ondřej Soukup
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Vladimír Smutný
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Zdeněk SvěrákScreenplay
- Original title
- Vratné lahve
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 8, 2007
- Original language
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic
Cast
Zdeněk SvěrákJosef Tkaloun
Daniela KolářováEliška Tkalounová
Tatiana DykováHelenka
Jiří MacháčekRobert Landa
Pavel LandovskýŘezáč
Jan BudařÚlisný
Nela BoudováPtáčková
Ondřej VetchýŘezáč mladší
Miroslav Táborskývedoucí Šubrt- Robin SoudekTomík
Martin PechlátKarel
Božidara TurzonovováKvadrová
Věra TichánkováLamková
Jana Plodkováčárkovaná
Jan VlasákWasserbauer
Alena Vránováředitelka školy
Lucie Pernetovátelefonní operátorka
Kristina KloubkováDáša
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