Based on a script by his father, Zdeněk Svěrák, who also plays the main role in the film, Jan Svěrák shot a story of a bachelor who after a sham marriage with a Russian and her emigration to the West becomes unexpectedly a father to a five-year-old boy. This touching story about a growing bond between the aging man and the small Russian boy was awarded an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.

Cast / Zdeněk Svěrák , Libuše Šafránková , Irina Livanovová , Ondřej Vetchý , Andrej Chalimon , Ladislav Smoljak , Stella Zázvorková    Writer / Zdeněk Svěrák    Story / Pavel Taussig    DoP / Vladimír Smutný    Editor / Alois Fišárek    Sound / Zbyněk Mikulík    Music / Ondřej Soukup

Release date / 15 May 1996