A funny, touching story of love in old age, which broke Czech box office records. A teacher loses his job and, working in a supermarket, he finds a new community. But now his wife feels abandoned. Joseph teaches literature in a secondary school in Prague. After losing his temper with a student he is forced into retirement but he refuses to take it lying down. He finds work at the bottle-return counter in a supermarket and discovers a new community who begin to rely on him. Once more his life has meaning, but Joseph neglects his wife, who feels she’s losing him... EMPTIES is a funny, touching story of love in old age, which broke Czech box office records upon release, becoming the first film ever to gross US$4 million in the Czech Republic in six weeks on release.
A funny, touching story of love in old age, which broke Czech box office records. A teacher loses his job and, working in a supermarket, he finds a new community. But now his wife feels abandoned.
Joseph teaches literature in a secondary school in Prague. After losing his temper with a student he is forced into retirement but he refuses to take it lying down. He finds work at the bottle-return counter in a supermarket and discovers a new community who begin to rely on him. Once more his life has meaning, but Joseph neglects his wife, who feels she’s losing him...
EMPTIES is a funny, touching story of love in old age, which broke Czech box office records upon release, becoming the first film ever to gross US$4 million in the Czech Republic in six weeks on release.