Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #75 I Served the King of England

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I Served the King of England

#75.I Served the King of England

Director/Writer
: Jirí Menzel
Producers
: Rudolf Biermann
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

The Gist: Based on a picaresque novel by Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal, the burlesque rise and fall of an apprentice waiter in Prague during the first half of the last century.

Fact: Menzel’s best film ever: Closely Watched Trains was also based on a novel by Hrabal.

See It:
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the past Berlin film festival, this should tickle the funny bone.

Release Date/Status?: SPC hasn’t set a date just yet….perhaps summer or fall?

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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