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Czechoslovakia film

The Joke
Directed by	Jaromil Jireš
Screenplay by	Jaromil Jires and Milan Kundera
Produced by	Milos Stejskal
Starring	Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar
Cinematography	Jan Curík
Edited by	Josef Valusiak
Music by	Zdenek Pololáník
Running time	81 min
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

The Joke (Template:Lang-cs) is a 1969 Czechoslovakian film by director Jaromil Jireš. Based on Milan Kundera's novel of the same name, The Joke tells the story of Ludvik Jahn, a man expelled from the Czechoslovakian Communist Party for an idle joke to his girlfriend, and the revenge he later seeks through adultery. 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. Amos Vogel wrote that the film was "possibly the most shattering indictment of totalitarianism to come out of a Communist country".

References

Michael Koresky. "Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave". The Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.

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