Žert
Subtitle: The joke
By: Film Studios Barrandov
Contributors: Jireš, Jaromil, 1935-2001; Somr, Josef; Munzar, Luděk; Dítětová, Jana, 1926-1991; Křesadlová, Věra; Filmové studio Barrandov
Series: Czech new wave
Publisher: Facets Video
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: cze
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Feature films; Czech Motion pictures; Foreign films; Film adaptations
Other titles: Joke
Description: Tragicomedy that revolves around a single joke: a professor, who is also an unrepentant ladies' man, is sentenced to six years hard labor for an irreverant postcard he sends to a woman he is trying to seduce. A stunning vision of life in Czechoslovakia during the Stalinist 50s.
Notes: Adapted from the novel Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.

DVD options include full chapterization, a Jaromil Jireš filmography, and biographical sketches of Jireš and Milan Kundera.

Directed by Jaromil Jireš ; written by Milan Kundera, Jaromil Jireš and Zdenek Blaha ; produced by Milos Stejskal ; cinematography by Jan Curik ; orginal music by Zdenek Pololanik.

Josef Somr, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Jana Dítětová, Jaromir Hanzlík, Věra Křesadlová, Luděk Munzar, Evald Schorm.

DVD.

In Czech with English subtitles.