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The Firemen's Ball
1968
The Firemen's Ball (or Fireman's Ball; Czech: Hoří, Má Panenko - "Fire, My Lady") is a 1967 Czechoslovak New Wave satirical comedy directed by Miloš Forman. It is set at the annual ball of a small town's volunteer fire department, and the plot portrays a series of disasters that occur during the evening. The film uses few professional ...
A classic satire of bureaucracy and corruption in a small town, where a fire department throws a party for their retired chief. The film was nominated for an Oscar and sold well in Czechoslovakia, despite some claims of censorship.
- (12.2K)
- Milos Forman
- Not Rated
- Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Aug 4, 2002 · Milos Forman's "The Firemen's Ball" was banned "permanently and forever" by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1968, as Soviet troops marched in to suppress a popular uprising. It was said to be a veiled attack on the Soviet system and its bureaucracy, a charge Forman prudently denied at the time but now happily agrees with. Telling a seductively mild and humorous story about a ...
The Firemen's Ball is an uproarious comedy of incompetence, mining laughs and sharp satire from an allegory that is amusing and distressing in equal measure. In Milos Forman's satire on Communism ...
- (32)
- Jan Vostrcil
- Milos Forman
- Comedy
Jan 19, 2020 · The Firemen's Ball (or The Fireman's Ball; Czech: Hoří, má panenko) is a 1967 comedy film directed by Miloš Forman. It is set at the annual ball of a small t...
- 73 min
- 101K
- Czech movies with foreign subtitles
The Firemen’s Ball. A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball ( Horí, má panenko) 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 ...
A movie about a firemen's ball that goes wrong in many ways, from the beauty contest to the raffle prizes. Roger Ebert praises the director Milos Forman for his humor and humanity, and sees the film as an allegory of Czechoslovakia's history.
