Film and Television Academy decides on Menzel film for Oscars

The Czech Film and Television Academy has chosen Jiri Menzel's I Served the King of England as the country's entry for the best foreign-language film category in next year's Academy Awards, held in the US. The film, based on the book by same name by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, received the most votes, beating out Secrets by filmmaker Alice Nellis, and Empties by the father-son duo of Zdenek and Jan Sverak. Jiri Menzel is well-known for his films based on Hrabal's work, most famously Closely Watched Trains which won the Best Foreign-Language film Oscar in 1968.