![]() ![]() ![]() In the restaurant, the younger Jan has a number of affairs with various women, including an actress and a prostitute at a brothel. The film continues to alternate between past and present, as the relationship between the older Jan and the new neighbors develops. ![]() Jan and Marcela develop a mutual attraction, though it remains unconsummated. Jan begins his career as a frankfurter vendor at a railroad station, and quickly learns the power of money and the influence it exerts on people.Īt one point during his reminiscences, a young woman, Marcela, and her older traveling companion, a professor, settle in the area. He occupies his time by rebuilding a deserted house, and begins to recall his past, saying his main wish in life was to become a millionaire. Jan Dítě has been released from a Czech prison three months before the end of his 15-year sentence and is settling in a town near the border between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The film was released in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2008. It is Menzel's sixth Hrabal adaptation for film. I Served the King of England ( Czech: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a 2006 Czech historical comedy film written and directed by Jiří Menzel, based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel I Served the King of England. ![]()
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