Empties
Mar 08 2007
•2h 43m
•Comedy
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.
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Zdeněk Svěrák
Josef Tkaloun
Daniela Kolářová
Eliška Tkalounová
Tatiana Dyková
Helenka
Jiří Macháček
Robert Landa
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