The Joke

Comedy, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jaromil Jireš

Status Released

Release Date 1969-02-28

Storyline

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.