The Country Teacher (2008)
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Ladislav Sedivy, left, and Pavel Liska in a scene from “The Country Teacher,” written and directed by Bohdan Slama.
March 27, 2009
Life Lessons Learned in Bucolic Classrooms
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: March 27, 2009
Petr (Pavel Liska), the title character of “The Country Teacher,” is a pensive, bespectacled Czech in his 30s who impulsively leaves Prague to take a job teaching natural science in a rural village. Both his subject and the rustic environment play into the movie’s contemplation of biological diversity as it applies to human behavior, especially sexuality. More
