Pavel Liska, right, mentors a student in 'The Country Teacher,' opening this weekend at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center. The new teacher at the speck of a middle school in the Czech ...

Life is made up of little lessons that, when strung together, form a whole that allows us to see the larger truth. The same can be said for The Country Teacher. It’s a series of little scenes, each ...

Notable for its attempt to widen the range of Czech thesp Pavel Liska’s career, "The Visitor" is an enigmatic, over-aestheticized tale experienced through the eyes and ears of a mute lad living on a ...

film profile] (Stesti), the Golden Shell winner at San Sebastian 2005, has brought Liska under the international spotlight. Cineuropa: Considering the success that the film had in the festival season ...

Czech writer-director Bohdan Slama’s “The Country Teacher” explores a basic situation with such insight into the human heart that it becomes an instance of a small, intimate film that quietly develops ...

A big-city natural history teacher arrives at a small rural Czech school and makes a great impression until his unresolved emotions about being homosexual threaten to ruin his life in Bohdan Slama's ...

Ladislav Sedivy, left, and Pavel Liska star in 'The Country Teacher,' a Czech drama being released on DVD on Sept. 8. The Country Teacher 3 stars (Unrated, 2008) Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovska and ...

I’m often surprised by a film that doesn’t look very good once I see it and realize it’s better than I had imagined. On the other hand, some films have the opposite effect, luring me in and then ...