Bohumil Hrabal's book I Served the King of England is among the pinnacles of his body of work. Mirrored in the fate of a young Czech waiter's life are the hopes, conflicts, dramas, and defeats of Czechoslovak history in the last century. Based on that book, director Jiří Menzel presents a film about a man in the twilight of his life seeking images of the era he has lived through. About a man who yearned to fill his life with wealth and beauty no matter what the circumstances, a man whose luck always lay in his encountering some misfortune.

Cast / Oldřich Kaiser , Ivan Barnev , Julia Jentsch , Martin Huba , Marián Labuda , Milan Lasica , Josef Abrhám    Writer / Jiří Menzel    Story / Bohumil Hrabal    Editor / Jiří Brožek    Sound / Radim Hladík jr.    DoP / Jaromír Šofr

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