Seclusion Near a Forest (Czech: Na samotě u lesa) is a 1976 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Jiří Menzel.
A third has succeeded in buying a cottage but with its elderly former owners still in residence, and is trying to evict them by such means as digging a moat across the front door and stopping up their chimney.
Undeterred by such obstacles, the Lavičkas visit a cottage belonging to a charismatic old farmer, Mr. Komárek (Josef Kemr), and are charmed by it, despite a few rotting floorboards and an odor of mildew.
Their children almost immediately start addressing Mr. Komárek as Grandpa and join him in collecting eggs from the chickens and in listening to fairy tales read aloud on the radio.
Fleas, free-roaming chickens, and a lack of electricity get on the nerves of Věra Lavičková, but her husband, Oldřich, remains smitten with country life.