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The Jester and the Queen

1987 1h 56m Fantasy List
Reviews Slach (Boleslav Polivka) is the caretaker of an abandoned castle in modern Bohemia that is rented to well-to-do visitors during hunting seasons. Two of these visitors are the German Konig (Jiri Kodet) and his French fiancée, Regina (Chantal Poulainova), who arrive for a hunting holiday, though Slach imagines them to be a medieval king and queen and he their royal court jester. As Slach slips deeper into his fantasy, the imagined French queen grows increasingly more sadistic. Read More Read Less
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Synopsis Slach (Boleslav Polivka) is the caretaker of an abandoned castle in modern Bohemia that is rented to well-to-do visitors during hunting seasons. Two of these visitors are the German Konig (Jiri Kodet) and his French fiancée, Regina (Chantal Poulainova), who arrive for a hunting holiday, though Slach imagines them to be a medieval king and queen and he their royal court jester. As Slach slips deeper into his fantasy, the imagined French queen grows increasingly more sadistic.
Director
Vera Chytilová
Genre
Fantasy
Original Language
Czech
Runtime
1h 56m