Film / 1988

The Jester and the Queen

Name: The Jester and the Queen
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1988-04-01
Duration: 111 min
Cast: Bolek Polívka, Chantal Poullain, Jiří Kodet, Vlastimil Brodský, Jiří Pecha

Directed by Věra Chytilová

Comedy

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.