Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:29:07 +0200https://english.radio.cz/jiri-menzel-emerges-director-i-served-king-england-8096157© 2026 Radio Prague International After a bitter struggle for rights, lasting over a decade, one of Bohumil Hrabal's best loved novels 'I served the King of England' is to be turned into a film. The palaver surrounding the rights put the project on hold for more than ten years, and embroiled the famous Czech directors Karel Kachyna, Jan Sverak and Jan Hrebejk. Jiri Menzel, who won an Oscar for his dramatization of the Hrabal novel 'Closely Observed Trains', has finally been selected to direct the film. Rosie Johnston has more on the story: encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/menzel1.jpg?timestamp=1590315435 https://english.radio.cz/jiri-menzel-emerges-director-i-served-king-england-8096157 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9