In an attempt to make the humorless Markéta lighten up, Jahn sends her a postcard reading "Optimism is the opium of mankind. Jahn flashes back to his college days and his love for Markéta, a devout believer in communism. Jahn then discovers Helena is married to Pavel, an old rival. He is interviewed by Helena, an attractive older woman whom he begins to seduce. The scientist Ludvík Jahn returns to his hometown after two decades away. Amos Vogel wrote that the film was "possibly the most shattering indictment of totalitarianism to come out of a Communist country". The film was produced during the political liberalization of the 1968 Prague Spring and contains many scenes which satirize and criticize the country's communist leadership. īased on Milan Kundera's 1967 novel of the same name, The Joke tells the story of Ludvík Jahn, a man expelled from the Czechoslovak Communist Party for an idle joke to his girlfriend, and the revenge he later seeks through adultery. It is considered one of the last films of the Czech New Wave movement. The Joke ( Czech: Žert) is a 1969 Czechoslovak film by director Jaromil Jireš.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |