Academy Awards, USA 1992
| Nominee Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film Czechoslovakia. |
Lucerna Film - Alfa
Directed by Jan Svěrák
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Magic Box)
In post WWII Prague, life for two young boys revolves around their elementary school. The classroom is completely undisciplined, their female teacher driven to insanity by their behavior. The principal hires a military war hero to try to get them under control. His unorthodox methods work, and soon he has complete command of the boys. His macho image also attracts many women, including the boys mother, and gets him into trouble when he seduces to underage twins. They run off his replacement and convince the authorities he is innocent. He returns to seduce them with more war stories. Hailed in its native Czechoslovakia, to American audiences it may seem like an unlikely combination of Raising Arizona and A Christmas Story, the former due its distractedly dizzy camerawork and the former due to its nostalgic, distorted view of childhood.
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