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Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar, Evald Schorm, Vera Kresadlova ... see more see more... , Jaromír Hanzlík , Jaroslava Obermaierová

A man who has been drummed out of the Communist Party for telling a joke seeks revenge by seducing the wife of a prominent official. He is sent to be rehabilitated but believes the party has fallen vi... read more read more...ctim to insiders who pay lip service to communal society virtues but are only out for themselves. What started out as a humorous interlude ends up with the man feeling demoralized and betrayed by the organization he had given his all to support. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Jaromil Jires

Release Date: December 31, 1968

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DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005

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  • 366weirdmovies
    May 14, 2012
    366weirdmovies
    A young Czechoslovakian man is expelled from the Communist party and sentenced to six years hard labor for writing "long live Trotsky" on a postcard as a joke; when he's released he tries to extract revenge from one of the students on the board that condemned him. This portrait o... read moref a wrecked life is an important warning that an inflexible ideology will inevitably used by bullies as a personal weapon and that totalitarian corruption seeps down to a very mundane level. From a novel by Milan Kundera, this has been called the most anti-Communist movie ever produced in a Communist country.

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Jeremy Heilman
July 25, 2002
Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com

Jires' exceptional and sometimes incongruent damnation of his homeland is in turns mournful, furious, conflicted, and resolved to failure, but it's never less than moving. Full Review

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