Cover image for Žert The joke
Title:
Žert The joke
Author:
Kundera, Milan.
Publication Information:
Chicago : Facets Video, 2001.

©1968
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (80 min.) ; sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Added Corporate Author:
ISBN:
9781565802919
UPC:
736899008338
Format :
DVD