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I Served the King of England

Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (I Served the King of England)

2006

Jiří Menzel

Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba ...

6.6

2,496

Comedy. Drama Jan Dítì (Ivan Barnev) is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. And he knows just how to do it: by hearing everything, seeing everything, and creating opportunities at every turn. Armed with this knowledge and an irrepressible wish to please, he soon leaves his first place of employment, a pub, for a luxury brothel and, finally moving onto an elegant Art ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Eddie Cockrell Variety	"[It] will be received like royalty by fests, art-house distribs, tube buyers and shiny discmakers the world over."	POS
United States	Richard Schickel Time	"'I Served the King of England' may not be a totally riveting movie, but it is, in its gently insinuating way, a curiously rewarding one."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's a film filled with wicked satire and sex both joyful and pitiful. But Menzel doesn't pound home his points. He skips gracefully through them, like his hero (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ruthe Stein SFGATE	"You are swept away by the beauty of individual moments and by Barnev's extraordinary performance, which beautifully serves 'I Served the King of England'."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It offers] some of the most pungently satirical observations of unfettered gluttony ever filmed"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"It's provocative, sexually frank, politically engaged, and loaded with historical absurdities and ironies"	POS

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