Jiri Menzel

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I Served the King of England review by jimweibo from St. Albans

Worth Czeching out 7 March 2010
...I saw Jiri Menzel's masterpiece 'Closely observed trains' decades ago, in my undergraduate days. There wasn't much about trains in it. In Menzel's latest (and frankly le... Read customer review

I Served the King of England on DVD (2008)
Starring: Pavel Nový, Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser
Director: Jiri Menzel
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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 ..read more »

62% from 646 members

Larks On A String on DVD (1969)
Starring: Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky
Director: Jiri Menzel, Jirí Menzel
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Filmed in 1969, but banned by the Czech government and only seeing a release in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime, Larks on a String tells the stories of various characters considered 'bourgeois' by the Czech government in the 1950s, and who have been forced to work in a junkyard for the ..read more »

71% from 45 members

The Cremator on DVD (1968)
Starring: Vlasta Chramostova, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Jiri Menzel
Director: Juraj Herz
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Juraj Herz's filmThe Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy and as a dark and disturbing tale of terror. Combining horror with humour, this brilliant black comedy, set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, tells the story of Karl ..read more »

72% from 548 members

Capricious Summer (1968)
Starring: Vlastimil Brodsky, Rudolf Hruskinsky, Jiri Menzel
Director: Jiri Menzel
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A radical change from other films of the Czech New Wave, this 1967 comedy focused on middle age as it approaches the film's characters. Set during the turn of the century, CAPRICIOUS SUMMER camps out with a group of vacationers who feel they are rapidly aging. Things get worse--and slightly chaotic-..read more »

65% from 7 members
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Closely Observed Trains on DVD (1966)
Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Josef Sommer
Director: Jiri Menzel
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From the heyday of Czech New Wave cinema, Jiri Menzel's CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS tells the affectionately filmed tale of innocent railway apprentice Milos, in German-occupied Czechoslovakia and his own preoccupation with losing his virginity. Naively oblivious to the events around him, he gets ..read more »

70% from 1,481 member

I Served the King of England - 3.0 stars
Larks On A String - 3.5 stars
The Cremator - 3.5 stars
Capricious Summer - 3.5 stars
Closely Observed Trains - 3.5 stars

The Cremator - 3.5 stars
Closely Observed Trains - 3.5 stars
I Served the King of England - 3.0 stars
Larks On A String - 3.5 stars
Capricious Summer - 3.5 stars

Capricious Summer - 3.5 stars
Larks On A String - 3.5 stars
I Served the King of England - 3.0 stars
Closely Observed Trains - 3.5 stars
The Cremator - 3.5 stars

Vlastimil Brodsky - 3 times - show films
Rudolf Hruskinsky - 2 times - show films
Pavel Nový - 2 times - show films
Julia Jentsch - 2 times - show films
Pavel Novy - 2 times - show films

Juraj Herz - 1 times - show films
Bernardo Bertolucci - 1 times - show films
Mike Figgis - 1 times - show films
Jirí Menzel - 1 times - show films