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I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho krale)

Rating: R for sexual content and nudity

Running Time: 120 minutes

Release Date: August 29, 2008

Release Notes: Limited

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A busboy with an inferiority complex and a driving ambition to become a millionaire, quickly rises to become a head waiter, but the respect he craves continues to allude him. When he marries a Nazi gym teacher, the Czechs despise him even more, while the Germans barely tolerate him. Rare stamps taken from wealthy Jews make his dream come true after the war, but his first-class hotel is soon nationalized by the Communists and he ends his life in poverty and isolation.

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Cast: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marián Labuda

Director: Jirí Menzel

Writer(s): Bohumil Hrabal, Jirí Menzel

Producer(s): Rudolf Biermann

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War

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