My Sweet Little Village

7.4 / 10

(60 votes)

The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two 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 (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.

Country:

Czechoslovakia

Genre:

Comedy

Duration:

98 minutes

Year:

1985

Director:

Jiří Menzel

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Company:

Fifth Group,

Filmové studio Barrandov

Cast:
János Bán

Otík

Marián Labuda

Pávek

Rudolf Hrušínský

doktor

Petr Čepek

Josef Turek

Libuše Šafránková

Jana Turková

Crew:
Zdeněk Svěrák

Writer

Jiří Menzel

Director

Zbyněk Hloch

Producer

Jaromír Šofr

Director of Photography

Zdeněk Svěrák

Screenplay