The Jester and the Queen

(1988)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1988

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Věra Chytilová

Cast: Bolek Polívka, Chantal Poullain, Jiří Kodet, Vlastimil Brodský, Jiří Pecha, Lumír Tuček, Miroslav Maruška, Marta Richterová, Lenka Vychodilová, Мария Росулкова

Plot

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.