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I Served the King of England (2008)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies!    Watch the Trailer Jan Dite is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. And he knows just how to do it: by hearing everything, seeing everything, and creating opportunities at every turn. Armed with this knowledge and an irrepressible wish to please, he soon leaves his first place of employment, a pub, for a luxury brothel and finally moves onto an elegant Art Nouveau Prague restaurant. But by the late 1930s, things are changing: Hitler has taken the Sudetenland region and is breaking apart Czechoslovakia. Jan falls in love with Líza, a Sudeten German proud of her Aryan blood. They marry, and soon after Líza is sent to serve on the Polish front, while Jan remains behind to serve as a nurse in a Nazi SS Research Hospital, but when she returns, she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had 'left behind.' After Líza’s less than heroic death, Jan sells the stamps and becomes a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years, one for each of his millions. Upon his release from jail, Jan is sent to live in a decrepit border town. Here Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life--and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events. Also Known As: I Served the King of England Obsluhoval Jsem Anglickeho Krale Obsluhoval Jsem Anglického Krále Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama and Adaptation Running Time: 1 hr. 58 min. Release Date: August 29th, 2008 (limited) MPAA Rating: R for sexual content and nudity. Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics Production Co.: Bioscop (Czech Republic), AQS, TV Nova, Barrandov, Universal Production Partners (UPP), Magic Box Slovakia Financiers: State Foundation of the Czech Republic for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography U.S. Box Office: $617,228 Filming Locations: Czech Republic Produced in: Czech Republic