Episode 433: The Joke (1969)

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Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Czechtember 2019 continues with a look at Jaromil Jires’s The Joke. Shot in 1968 and released in 1969, the film was adapted by Jires and Milan Kundera, the author of the book of the same name. It tells the tale of Ludvik who was ousted from the Communist party after the youthful indiscretion of making a joke. He spends the rest of his life feeling the effects of this including hatching a plan for revenge on the university student who ousted him that takes 15 years to fulfill.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media, let's make some noise.
0:07.3	Here you know better things.
0:10.4	So this is Alenka, man.
0:12.9	It's, that me got back when he was 16.
0:15.0	I'm a student's kind of a manichka,
0:16.7	because I was actually, I'm really hard.
0:19.9	Here I'm doing another. I was there. You see Nair, me, hoddy. Here I've done one,
0:21.6	from the Zadu.
0:23.6	You see that the Keraldske?
0:25.6	The Cisarsk
0:26.6	A-Cissars'i
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0:29.6	she wastabella,
0:31.6	and I wul,
0:32.6	I still,
0:33.6	not,
0:34.6	why?
0:35.6	Why?
0:36.6	This, this, this, she, I was really not even could be. Why? Why? I was always in the
0:38.3	I was always in the
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