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Empties – a moving Czech comedy

We love Czech comedies! Yes, we know, we are not unique. Perhaps mostly of you have already seen Empties but it is still worth mentioning. This film tells a story of an elderly literature teacher from a high school in Prague. Josef Tkaloun, set up by his lazy pupils, decides to quite the job. Instead of getting retired he undertakes new professional challenges. He starts to bike as a courier but he soon realizes that it is not for him. Josef is physically fit but digitally illiterate. Next choice is a supermarket where he recycles glass bottles, the empties. And the new life begins – with new inspirations, observations, flirts… Jan & Zděnek Svěrák   - son and father duo This film ( Vratné lahve – in Czech, 2007) is made by Jan Svěrák. The main role stars his father Zděnek Svěrák. It is the third movie in the trilogy on aging that commenced 1991 with The Elementary School and continued in 1996 with the Oscar-winning Kolya. On the DVD’s extras one can see how the fa

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