I Served the King of England Trailer by Jirí Menzel To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. flv (320x256) [5 MB] The burlesque rise and fall of an apprentice waiter in Prague during the first half of the last century. Based on a picaresque novel by Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997)