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Hot Dogs to Haute Cuisine, Then Back Down Again
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: August 29, 2008

Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev), the plucky little waiter who bounces around central Europe in Jiri Menzel’s epic comedy “I Served the King of England,” has colossal ambitions. Catering to political and military fat cats at a fancy brothel in 1930s Czechoslovakia, his appetites are piqued as he observes these pompous boors dandling prostitutes on their laps while washing down obscenely rich banquets with beer and brandy. More