---
title: 'The Elementary School (1991)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jan Svěrák'
released: '1991-08-02'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-elementary-school-1991'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102571/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Elementary School (1991)

1991 · 100 min · Drama, Comedy, War · Czechoslovakia

Original title: Obecná škola
Part of: Trilogy about maturation

## Synopsis

The Elementary School 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 and is considered to belong among the best Czechoslovak films ever. A prequel, Barefoot, was released in 2017.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jan Svěrák](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-sverak)
- **Screenplay:** [Zdeněk Svěrák](https://cinepixo.com/people/zdenek-sverak)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jiří Svoboda](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-svoboda-2)
- **Producer:** [Jaromír Lukáš](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaromir-lukas)
- **Director of Photography:** [František Brabec](https://cinepixo.com/people/frantisek-brabec)
- **Editor:** [Alois Fišárek](https://cinepixo.com/people/alois-fisarek)

## Cast

- [Pavel Kučera](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-kucera)
- [Taťána Puttová](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatana-puttova)
- [Tomáš Krejčík](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomas-krejcik)
- [Jan Kasala](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-kasala)
- [Petr Čepek](https://cinepixo.com/people/petr-cepek)
- [Miroslava Škudrnová](https://cinepixo.com/people/miroslava-skudrnova)
- [Ivo Hasalík](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivo-hasalik)
- [Jaroslav Ježek](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaroslav-jezek-2)
- [Jan Tříska](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-triska) as Igor Hnízdo
- [Filip Lim](https://cinepixo.com/people/filip-lim)
- [Stanislav Hájek](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanislav-hajek)
- [Václav Jakoubek](https://cinepixo.com/people/vaclav-jakoubek)
- [Eva Holubová](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-holubova)
- [Karel Kachyňa](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-kachyna)
- [Irena Pavlásková](https://cinepixo.com/people/irena-pavlaskova)

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