The Elementary School

The Elementary School
The Elementary School
	Original release poster
Directed by	Jan Svěrák
Screenplay by	Zdeněk Svěrák
Story by	Zdeněk Svěrák
Produced by	Jaromír Lukáš
Starring	Václav Jakoubek; Jan Tříska
Cinematography	František A. Brabec
Edited by	Alois Fisárek
Music by	Jiří Svoboda
Production; company	Filmové Studio Barrandov
Distributed by	Lucernafilm - Alfa
Release date	1 August 1991;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech
Box office	13 million KČs

The Elementary School (Czech: Obecná škola) is a 1991 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film directed by Jan Svěrák. The screenplay comes from the pen of his father Zdeněk Svěrák. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991^[2] and is considered to belong among the best Czechoslovak films ever. A prequel, Barefoot, was released in 2017.

The film is set in the early post-war period, in a suburban elementary school in Prague's vicinity. A war hero is hired as a teacher, and asked to discipline an unruly class of boys. He soon earns their respect, but he is threatened with termination over his reputed sexual relationship with two highschool girls.

^ "Václav Klaus mohl být filmovou hvězdou: Proč odmítl roli v Obecné škole?". Ahaonline.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
^ "The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.

[Václav_Klaus_mohl_být_filmovou_hvězdou:_Proč_odmítl_roli_v_Obecné_škole?_-_AHA.cz-1] "Václav Klaus mohl být filmovou hvězdou: Proč odmítl roli v Obecné škole?". Ahaonline.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

[Oscars1992-2] "The 64th Academy Awards (1992) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.

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