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