The Joke

A darkly comic examination of political betrayal, personal resentment, and the corrosive nature of revenge, told through the lens of a man haunted by his past.

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.