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  • I Served the King of England
  • Opened August 29, 2008 | Runtime:1 hr. 58 min.
  • R
    sexual content and nudity
  • Jan Díte, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. Armed with this knowledge and an irrepressible wish to please, he leaves a pub for a luxury brothel and, finally moving onto an elegant Art Nouveau Prague restaurant. But by the Read More
  • Cast: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marian Labuda
  • Director: Jirí Menzel
  • Genres: Period Film, Drama

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  • Ivan Barnev as Jan Díte, Martin Huba as front waiter Skrivánek, and Tonya Graves as the Emporer of Ethiopia in "I Served the King of England."
  • Ivan Barnev as Jan Dite and Julia Jentsch as Liza in "I Served the King of England."
  • Martin Huba as front waiter Skrivanek and Ivan Barnev as Jan Dite in "I Served the King of England."
  • Martin Huba as front waiter Skrivánek and Ivan Barnev as Jan Díte in "I Served the King of England."
  • A dancer entertains guests at the Hotel Tichota in "I Served the King of England."
  • Ivan Barnev as Jan Dite in "I Served the King of England."
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  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    This is a dark story as well as a frothy one. But the bubble of absurdist...

  • 90
    The Hollywood Reporter | Ray Bennett

    It is a sumptuously told tale of childlike wonder in the face of darkest...

  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    The movie's main appeal is its special comic flavor -- a zesty fusion of...

  • 80
    Variety | Eddie Cockrell

    A virtual primer on the unique mixture of self-deprecating dark humor and...

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