Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (2006)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Jirí Menzel

Writers:

Bohumil Hrabal (novel)
Jirí Menzel (writer)

Release Date:

11 January 2007 (Czech Republic)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | War

Plot:

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel. |

Plot Keywords:

Beer | Streetfight | Historical | Waiter | 1930s

Awards:

7 wins & 2 nominations

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Cast

Ivan Barnev	...	Jan Díte, younger
Oldrich Kaiser	...	Jan Díte, older
Julia Jentsch	...	Líza
Martin Huba	...	Skrivánek
Marián Labuda	...	Walden
Milan Lasica	...	Professor
Josef Abrhám	...	Hotelier Brandejs
Jirí Lábus	...	Hotel Boss
Jaromír Dulava	...	Waiter Karel
Pavel Nový	...	General
István Szabó	...	Stock Marketeer
Tonya Graves	...	Abyssinian Emperor
Rudolf Hrusínský	...	Tichota
Petr Ctvrtnícek	...	Stockbroker
Jirí Sesták	...	Waiter
Zdenek Zák	...	Militiaman
Emília Vásáryová	...	Mrs. Rajska
Zuzana Fialová	...	Marcela
Oldrich Vlach
Ladislav Zupanic
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Václav Chalupa	...	Hrdlicka
Petra Hrebícková	...	Jaruska
Rudolf Jelínek
Eva Kalcovská	...	Wanda
Sárka Petruzelová	...	Julinka

Directed by
Jirí Menzel

Writing credits
Bohumil Hrabal		(novel)
Jirí Menzel		(writer)

Produced by
Rudolf Biermann	....	producer
Petr Dvorak	....	co-producer: TV Nova
Andrea Metcalfe	....	executive producer: AQS
Robert Schaffer	....	executive producer: AQS
Helena Uldrichová	....	co-producer: Barrandov Studio

Original Music by
Ales Brezina

Cinematography by
Jaromír Sofr

Film Editing by
Jirí Brozek

Production Design by
Milan Býcek

Costume Design by
Milan Corba

Makeup Department
Jirina Pahlerova	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Pavel Cechak	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jiri Ml. Kacirek	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Milan Babik	....	assistant property master
Karel Vanásek	....	property master

Sound Department
Petr Cechák	....	post-production sound assistant
Radim Hladík Jr.	....	sound re-recording mixer
Roman Rigo	....	playback operator
Andrea Veselková	....	foley artist
Vojtech Vetrovec	....	boom operator

Visual Effects by
Jiri Cvancara	....	digital intermediate
Ales Dlabac	....	3D artist
Jiri Forejt	....	digital compositor
Miro Gal	....	Flame artist
Lukas Herrmann	....	digital matte paint artist
Jan Heusler	....	digital compositor
Tomas Kalhous	....	digital compositor
Maros Kesjar	....	digital effects artist
Jirí Linhart	....	digital effects artist
Petr Masek	....	digital compositor
Boris Masník	....	visual effects supervisor: UPP
Tomas Munzar	....	digital compositor
Vaclav Ondrousek	....	digital compositor
Robert Pik	....	digital compositor
Petr Vcelicka	....	digital compositor
Kim Wiseman	....	digital compositor

Camera and Electrical Department
Andrej Arnautov Jr.	....	lighting technician
Klaus Fuxjäger	....	camera operator
Borivoj Klecka	....	gaffer

Other crew
Adam Fuchs	....	location manager
Mila Radova	....	unit publicist
Kristián Suda	....	script editor

Production Companies

• AQS
• Barrandov Studios
• Magic Box Slovakia
• TV Nova
• UPP

Distributors

• AmaFilms (2007) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Bioscop (2006) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Blanco & Travieso (2007) (Venezuela) (theatrical)
• Brunbro Entertainment Group (2007) (Belgium) (all media)
• Cine Colombia (2007) (Colombia) (theatrical)
• Distribution Company (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Farbfilm-Verleih (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Gutek Film (2007) (Poland) (theatrical)
• Misteria Zvuka (2008) (Russia) (DVD)
• Moonlight Films (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2008) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)

Other Companies

• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix

Also Known As:

I Served the King of England (International: English title)
Obsluhoval som anglického krála (Slovakia)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content and nudity.

Runtime:

Czech Republic:120 min

Country:

Czech Republic | Slovakia

Language:

Czech | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Czech Republic:12 | Slovakia:12 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:18 | USA:R | Hong Kong:IIB | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Harrachov, Czech Republic

Company:

AQS

Trivia:

Czech Republic's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the Hotel Paris' restaurant scene a modern office building located across the street is clearly seen through the window.

good-looking spookily sleazy ultimately pointless

Watching this with a Girlfriend might not be the best way to enjoy this movie. It all starts pretty well, delicious cinematography, nice period setting, funny characters etc. The First scene with naked women as sexual objects fulfilling the whims of older powerful men in a fantasy style comes and goes, yep, that's fine, a bit politically incorrect but we can handle that, but then the second and third and forth and so on scene of exactly the same over and over again, and you start to wonder who the hell made this movie, some old guy using it as an excuse to visualise his own private fantasy world of subservient naked women who act out his every whim, cos that's what it looked like. There wasn't a female character in this movie that wasn't a willing whore or a Nazi. After over an hour of this my viewing partner had to speak up and the rest of the movie was a tender hooks affair as I hoped we could get to the end of the movie and find the deep message buried within without to many more episodes to set woman's equality back 100 years, which of course wasn't going to happen, more elderly men with sex kitten women at their beckon call and we reach the end of the movie and have time to contemplate the meaning of it all,..... and there doesn't seem to be any great revelation.

Hey I like tits and ass sexy women as much as the next guy, but this movie had a really seedy feel to it. Maybe it's a cultural thing, I've obviously offended a bunch of people by daring to criticize the master work of a local talent but be fair, I'm not the only one who noted and had a problem with the objectification going on here.

The fact that this film was so masterfully made, beautifully shot, it implied something important, but at the end of it all it was difficult to weigh the misogyny against beauty. "Sexism masquerading as art"?

sorry to offend the directors fans but you know there's probably some truth in what I've said.