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The Elementary School and (no) discipline

The story of Obecná škola (The Elementary School - in Czech) was written by Zděnek Svěrák who described his own experiences in the post-war Czechoslovakia. First as a pupil and later also as a teacher. He did it with humor, irony and nostalgia. A successful mix.  Comedy about post-war Czechoslovakia The story begins in 1945, after the World War II.   Ten-year-old boy Eda lives in one of the suburbs of Prague, in Czechoslovakia. He attends the elementary school and he belongs to a class with no discipline at all. Maxová, his female teacher gets a breakdown and is replaced by Igor, a reputed war hero. Despite his strict authoritarian methods, the boys soon become charmed by the man. Igor were successful if not the girls and their skirts… The successful Svěrák family duo That is the first film of the Svěrák family duo and the first on time passing and aging. With big history in the background. The next movie in this trilogy are Kolya (1996) and Empties (2007).

The Jewish Cardinal from Notre Dame

The Jewish Cardinal is a French feature film from 2012 about Jean-Marie Lustiger, born Aron Lustiger. His turbulent life was everything but ordinary - Aaron Lustiger was the son of immigrants, Polish Jews, who came to France. And where he became the charismatic archbishop of Paris. This biographical film emphasizes its strategic role between Christianity and Judaism. Jean- Marie Lustiger born Aron Lustiger Born in Paris in 1926, he converted to Catholicism in 1940, in occupied France. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, then in Orléans and later at the Sorbonne. Jean-Marie Lustiger was elected to the Académie Française, in 1996 he was introduced to the famous hall sous la Coupole. He considered himself the son of the Old and New Testaments. There was no surprise when his cousin Arno Lustiger, a German historian of Polish descent and survivor of the Holocaust, spoke Caddish, the Jewish prayer,   at the cardinal's tomb. Jean-Marie Lustiger died in