Žert The joke

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Title:

Žert The joke

Author:

Kundera, Milan.

Publication Information:

Chicago : Facets Video, 2001.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) ; sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Czech new wave

Czech new wave.

Summary:

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.

General Note:

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.

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Language:

Czech

Subject Term:

Feature films -- Czechoslovakia.

Motion pictures, Czech.

Genre:

Foreign films.