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Sony Pictures Classics |
Release Date:
August 29, 2008
Summary:
Jan Dít? 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 Nouveau Prague restaurant. But by the late 1930s, things are changing: Hitler has taken the Sudetenland region and is breaking apart Czechoslovakia. Jan falls in love with Líza, a Sudeten German proud of her Aryan blood. They marry, and soon after Líza is sent to serve on the Polish front, while Jan remains behind to serve as a nurse in
a Nazi SS Research Hospital, but when she returns, she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had ‘left behind’ ... After Líza’s less than heroic death, Jan sells
the stamps and becomes ... a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years, one for each of his millions... Upon his release from jail, Jan is sent to live in a decrepit border town. Here Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life – and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events. (Sony Classics)
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Details
| Runtime: | 120 min |
| Rating: | Rated R for sexual content and nudity. |
| Production: | Barrandov Studios |
| Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Romance, War |
| Countries: | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Languages: | English, German, French, Italian, Czech, Korean |
| Home Release Date: | Feb 17, 2009 |
| Director | Credit |
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| Jirí Menzel | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Bohumil Hrabal | Novel |
| Jirí Menzel | Writer |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Ivan Barnev | Jan Díte, Younger |
| Julia Jentsch | Líza |
| Oldrich Kaiser | Jan Díte, Older |
| Cast | Credit |
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| István Szabó | Stock Marketeer |
| Jaromír Dulava | Waiter Karel |
| Jirí Lábus | Hotel Boss |
| Jirí Sesták | Waiter |
| Josef Abrhám | Hotelier Brandejs |
| Marián Labuda | Walden |
| Martin Huba | Skrivánek |
| Milan Lasica | Professor |
| Pavel Nový | General |
| Petr Ctvrtnícek | Stockbroker |
| Rudolf Hrusínský | Tichota |
| Tonya Graves | Abyssinian Emperor |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Andrea Metcalfe | Executive Producer: AQS |
| Helena Uldrichová | Co-Producer: Barrandov Studio |
| Petr Dvorak | Co-Producer: TV Nova |
| Robert Schaffer | Executive Producer: AQS |
| Rudolf Biermann | Producer |
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