The Gardener's Year, a true story of injustice perpetrated on a peaceful gardener by a wealthy neighbor, is based on Czech author Karel Čapek’s eponymous literary work about a gardener’s har­dships and successes over the course of a year. Czech director Jiří Havelka, helms the quietly moving tragicomic story about a remarkably stubborn struggle for the right to a dignified life is built on two great performances by Oldřich Kaiser and Dáša Vokatá.