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Firemen's Ball, The (1967)
Rating:
Starring: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka, Josef Kolb
Director: Milos Forman
Category: Comedy
Studio: Criterion
Subtitles:
English
Length:
73 mins

 
 

 

The milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire.A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen's ball where nothing goes right -- from a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers, to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered.Presumed to be a commentary on the floundering Czech leadership, the film was "banned forever" in Czechoslovakia following the Russian invasion and prompted Milos Forman's move to America.