Title: Barefoot
Original Title: Po strnisti bos
Year: 2017
Info
- Country: Czech Republic Denmark
- Length: 111 Minutes (1 hour 51 min)
- Budget: $2,190,850
- Genre: Comedy Drama History
- Distributor: A Contracorriente Films
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Plot
'Barefoot' is a dramatic film that tells the story of Eda, a Czech 8-years-old boy who is forced to leave the Praga he was born in the Second World War due to the nazi occupation of the city. Thus, the kid moves on to a little town in the countryside where he used to pass his holidays, because in this village live most of his family. Eda will need to confront the change from the busy urban life to the excited rural life, the new attraction for girls and the discover of dark pasts in his family.
'Barefoot' is the film which the director Jan Sverak comes back. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996 with the film 'Kolya'. This new story is based in a book written by his father.
Cast
Director:
Videos
'Barefoot' trailer with English subtitles
April 26 2019
Photos
Trivia
Based in a true story
The script is based on his father's childhood memories, in a child's point of view.
Poor box office
The critical panning, and poor box office receipts resulted in 20th Century Fox canceling the Blu-ray release of the film and instead releasing it on standard DVD.
A prequel
This film is a prequel of a prior film called 'The Elementary School', released in 1991.
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