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EMPTIES

By Jan SVERAK

Drama - Completed 2007

EMPTIES is the last in a trilogy from director Jan Sverák and his father, screenwriter/actor Zdenek Sverák. The trilogy began with the Academy Award-nominated ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, exploring childhood, continued into adulthood with the Academy Award-winning KOLYA, and now comes to completion with EMPTI

- Year of production
- 2007
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- CZECH
- Duration
- 104 mn
- Director(s)
- Jan SVERAK
- Synopsis
- Joseph teaches literature in a secondary school in Prague.
  One day he is forced into retirement but he refuses to take it lying down. He finds work at the bottle-return counter in a supermarket and discovers a new community who begin to rely on him. Once more his life has meaning, but Joseph neglects his wife, who feels she’s losing him.
  EMPTIES is a funny, touching story of love in old age, which broke Czech box office records upon release, becoming the first film ever - Czech or Hollywood blockbuster - to gross US$4 million in the Czech Republic in six weeks on release.