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Venkovský učitel [digital videodisc] = The country teacher / Pallas Film ; screenplay, Bohdan Sláma ; directed by Bohdan Sláma.

[New York] : Film Movement, c2009.

Man-woman relationships -- Czech Republic -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Czech.

Film Movement series ; v. 7, film 4

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

When a young natural sciences teacher (Pavel Liška) turns down a prestigious school in Prague to work in the backwaters of a remote Czech village, it seems like an odd choice, but he's looking for the space and quiet that he thinks only the country can afford. Once settled, he meets Marie (Zuzana Bydžovská), a local widow whose husband left her to work their farm and raise an adolescent son (Ladislav Šedivý). They form a firm friendship one she'd like to take further. What Marie does not realize is that the teacher has actually left Prague to escape both a former lover and the confusion he feels about his own sexuality. It is a reality he is forced to confront, however, when his ex-boyfriend arrives in town, upsetting the tenuous love triangle that has formed between Marie, the teacher and her insolent son.

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