All of TVGuide.com Videos Only

The Elementary School

1991, Movie, NR, 100 mins

The Elementary School: Review

Set in post-WWII Czechoslovakia, this charming coming-of-age picture starts raucously but wins over viewers once they're acclimated to director Jan Sverak's broad, sentimental style. A 1991 Oscar nominee for best foreign film (which Sverak's KOLYA won in 1996), THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL bears some of the humorous and political hallmarks of the golden age of Czech cinema, when Sverak's progenitors like Jiri Menzel, Milos Forman, and Jan Kadar reigned supreme. At the tail end of ... read more leave a comment