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Release date United States: Thursday, August 21, 2008

Director: Jirí Menzel

Cast:

Ivan Barnev as Jan Díte, younger
Oldrich Kaiser as Jan Díte, older
Julia Jentsch as Líza
Martin Huba as Skrivánek
Marián Labuda as Walden
Milan Lasica as Professor
Josef Abrhám as Hotelier Brandejs
Jirí Lábus as Hotel Boss
Jaromír Dulava as Waiter Karel
Pavel Nový as General
István Szabó as Stock Marketeer
Tonya Graves as Abyssinian Emperor
Rudolf Hrusínský as Tichota
Petr Ctvrtnícek as Stockbroker
Jirí Sesták as Waiter

About:

A busboy with an inferiority complex and a driving ambition to become a millionaire, quickly rises to become a head waiter, but the respect he craves continues to allude him. When he marries a Nazi gym teacher, the Czechs despise him even more, while the Germans barely tolerate him. Rare stamps taken from wealthy Jews make his dream come true after the war, but his first-class hotel is soon nationalized by the Communists and he ends his life in poverty and isolation.

Genres:
Romance - Comedy - War

Producers: Rudolf Biermann

Writers: Bohumil Hrabal, Jirí Menzel

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics