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I Served the King of England | 
 enlarge | Director: Jirí Menzel
Actors: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda, Milan Lasica
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $3.98
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Sales Rank: 43819
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Czech (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD28025D
ISBN: 1435938380
UPC: 043396280250
EAN: 9781435938380
ASIN: B001MVYUPM
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
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.
Amazon.com
I Served the King of England treads lightly through a dark time--before, during, and after World War II in Eastern Europe. This cinematic fable follows an impish Czechoslovakian man who leads a modestly charmed life as a waiter at hotels and brothels, sleeping with prostitutes and chambermaids as he dreams of wealth and plays pranks on the rich and bourgeois. But when he falls in love with a fervent Nazi woman, glimpses of a bleak reality intrude into his whimsical life. I Served the King of England doesn't delve in to the horrors of the concentration camps (though it does explore some strange, lesser-known corners of the Nazi psyche). This is the story of a man who leads a shallow life, who evades atrocity almost by accident, and who grows haunted by his lack of engagement and pursuit of meaningless goals--and yet, he survives while others do not. The movie's charm and humor are rich and multilayered (though it's unfortunate that its female characters are not as well-drawn as the men and the treatment of prostitution is, at best, glib). I Served the King of England is a sweet and subtle movie with an erotic streak that will appeal more to men than to women. --Bret Fetzer
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