A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
Czechoslovakia, 1963. Jan Díte is released from prison after serving 15 year. He goes into semi exile in a deserted village near the German border. In flashbacks, he tells his story: he's a small, clever and quick-witted young man, stubbornly naïve, a vendor at a train station. Thanks to a patron, he becomes a waiter at upscale hotels and restaurants. We see him discover how the wealthy tick and how to please women. He strives to be a millionaire with his own hotel. Before the war, he meets Líza, a German woman in Prague. Is this his ticket to wealth or his undoing? Meanwhile, we see Jan putting a life together after prison: why was he sentenced, and who will he become?

film is based on the Czech contemporary Bo Hu Mill - the Hera Baltic ( died 1997 ) with the same name adapted from the novel , the perspective of the Prague hotel waiter Ditie reviewed the history of Europe two decades . Dieter the little dwarf go rather short , through his intelligence , movement and hard work , coupled with the fate of God constantly favor from a train station carrying buckets sell Sausage itinerant hawkers began , and then to ordinary waiter worked as a waiter , chief waiters , lobby foreman in the turbulent social change step by step toward the pinnacle of success , and finally became the owner of the most luxurious hotels in Prague , lived a drunk of life to live in dreams . But the end of World War II , Dietrich because of the collusion of German communism, the new regime of conviction , the confiscation of all property and imprisonment for 15 years . After 15 years , former astute young Dieter out of prison , gray-haired , all alone , looking back on his life , he felt everything like a gorgeous trance dream . IvanBarnev , and OldrichKaiser play the Ditie of youth and old age . Ditie been commanded to observe every move that took place there , but am sorry to say , Ditie seems to have never played for the British king of .