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Jan Dite
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Dits pursues, the capitalist fever dream unaware that he's rubbing shoulders with the No. 1 villains of the 20th century. [Jan Dite] even falls for a Nazi hotcha (Sophie Scholl's Julia Jentsch), who makes him undergo medical tests to see if he's "fit to impregnate an Aryan vagina in a dignified manner, There's a point when [Jiri Menzel] could've easily tipped this into dead seriousness. He doesn't. Like Closely Watched "Drains, England sustains a twisted comic tone, and the film gets sharper as it gets darker. (Dig a yuk when a mother corrects her boy for , sieg heiling with the wrong arm.) Except for some grisliness toward ' the end, Dite mostly sees World War II from a very removed point of view, spending part of the war working at a picturesque chateau where eternally naked blonds w...
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It was always my luck to run into bad luck," our protagonist notes in voice-over as he is released from a 15-year prison sentence. Conscripted to build rural roads while enduring a peasant existence, Czechoslovakian waiter Jan Dite (the elder version wonderfully inhabited by Oldrich Kaiser) reflects back on his fanciful life in pre-war Prague. Young Dite (Ivan Barnev) is a diminutive fellow, but what he lacks in height, he makes up for in industriousness. Harboring a desire to become a millionaire, he climbs through the ranks of the hospitality business, catering to the very men whose wealth and capacity for leisure he hopes to match. While money is his true love, Dite also has a penchant for the pleasures of the flesh, and his randy exploits with female coworkers necessitates frequent...
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I wouldn't call any of it black humor. The Czechs call it "laughter through the tears," so who am I to give it a new name? You don't need a degree in English to see that [Jan Dite]'s story is his country's, from the naïve innocence of the early 20th-century through decades of domination from outside and from within. (Dite, who ultimately becomes rich, soon loses his privilege when the communists take over.) For [JIRI MENZEL], whose Closely Watched Trains was a touchstone films of an emerging Czech cinema of the "60s, I Served the King is both a return to the past and a summing up. He films a few early scenes in the style of a silent movie, and even when he's being modern, with touches of magic realism, he never seems to be too far from slightly overcranking things. He's never given up h...
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The film stars Jan Dite, as an older man emerging from a grimy Prague prison.
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The film begins as diminutive Jan Dité leaves prison as an old man (played by Oldrich Kaiser). As he recalls his past, [Ivan Barnev] plays Dite as a younger man, and the first flashback emulates the style of a black-and-white silent movie. Dité serves hot dogs at a train station, which leads to slapstick mishaps. Barnev comes across as a natural heir to silent-movie comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, mastering the kind of body language that's cartoonish and graceful.
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The film stars Jan Díte, as an older man emerging from a grimy Prague prison.
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The film stars Jan Díte, as an older man emerging from a grimy Prague prison.
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Bawdy and farcical, "I Served the King of England" is an adaptation of a popular novel by Bohumil Hrabal about a man named Jan Dite, played by Oldrich Kaiser, who has large ambitions matched only by his paltry income. His ultimate goal? Turn his job waiting tables into the ownership of a large hotel. And, of course, be surrounded by beautiful women.
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When bombs demolish the hostel, our hero sells the valuable stamp collection for which his fanatical Nazi spouse sacrificed her life (she ran into the collapsing building to retrieve it) to establish himself as a millionaire hotel owner in the aftermath of the war.
... the King of England tells the story of Jan Díte, a humble street vendor in Prague who one day lear...
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. Jiri Menzel (Closely Watched Trains) is a longstanding filmmaker and Jan Díte, his protagonist in I Served, is a hot-dog vendor who becomes a brilliant waiter at fine hotel restaurants. How could two people be less alike? But this is Czech cinema, where everything is irony and melancholy, the same yet different.
