The Joke
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.
- Year : 1969
- Country : Czechoslovakia
- Genre : Comedy, Drama
- Studio : Filmové studio Barrandov
- Keyword : adultery, based on novel or book, politics, restaurant, postcard, revenge, memory, pickaxe, hard labor, communist party, voted out, expulsion
- Director : Jaromil Jireš
- Cast : Josef Somr, Jana Dítětová, Luděk Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Evald Schorm, Milan Svrčina