Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
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The people behind it
Zdeněk Svěrák
Josef Tkaloun
Daniela Kolářová
Eliška Tkalounová
Tatiana Dyková
Helenka
Jiří Macháček
Robert Landa
Pavel Landovský
Řezáč
Jan Budař
Úlisný
Nela Boudová
Ptáčková
Ondřej Vetchý
Řezáč mladší
Miroslav Táborský
vedoucí Šubrt
Robin Soudek
Tomík
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