Where to watch
Stream
- Criterion Channel
- DocAlliance Films
- Klassiki
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
About The Joke
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
- Director
- Jaromil Jireš
- Writers
- Milan Kundera
- Jaromil Jireš
- Ladislav Fikar
- Original title
- Žert
