Summer School, 2001 (2025)
The first Czech-Viet film.
- Genre: Drama · Family
- Country: Czechia
- Runtime: 103 min
- Rated: 12+
- Released: 2025-07-24
- Czech release: 2025-07-08
- TMDB rating: 6.8 / 10 (6)
A teenage boy returns to his family after years apart, scarred from being sent to Vietnam while his younger brother stayed in Czechia. After reunion, he faces a distant father, a mother desperate to mend the past, and a brother uneasy about sharing the spotlight. One chaotic summer pushes them to their limits when the younger brother falls from a roof. Between misunderstandings and clumsy family dynamics, they learn that sometimes, healing begins by letting the cracks show.
- Director: Dužan Duong
- Writer: Dužan Duong, Lukáš Kokeš, Jan Smutný
- Music: Pjoni
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About
Dužan Duong (1991) was born in Hanoi but has lived in the Czech Republic since age four. He got into filmmaking when recording his own dance performances. He previously shot the short docufiction Mat Goc (2014, Ji.hlava IDFF 2014) about his relationship to his native Vietnam, and also worked on Lukáš Kokeš’s V.I.P. / …
Hoang Anh Doan is a Vietnamese-Czech actor known from the series Zrádci and the film Villa Lucia. He drew wider attention playing Dũng - the estranged family patriarch - in Dužan Duong's debut feature Letní škola, 2001 (2025), the first Czech film focused on the Vietnamese community with a predominantly Vietnamese cas…
Dũng Nguyễn is a Vietnam-born actor based in the Czech Republic. His role in Dužan Duong's film Letní škola, 2001 earned him the Czech Lion 2026 for Best Supporting Actor - making him the first Vietnamese person ever to receive the award. He had previously appeared in the Czech film Ubal a zmiz.
Jana Vaculíková is a Czech actress, singer and teacher born in 1972 in Bzenec, South Moravia. She trained in musical theatre at the Janáček Academy in Brno and built her early career at the Brno City Theatre. She became widely known for the lead role of Romana in the musical film Kvaska (2007) and has appeared in many…
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