The Joke is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

Name: The Joke
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1969
Cast: Josef Somr, Jana Dítětová, Luděk Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Evald Schorm

The Joke (1969)Comedy, DramaRating 66/100

The great novelist Milan Kundera adapated his own novel for this tragi-comic story set against the backdrop of Stalinist repression in fifties Czechoslovakia

Cast: Josef Somr, Jana Dítětová, Luděk Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Evald Schorm, Milan Svrčina, Miloš Rejchrt

Director: Jaromil Jireš

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