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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 ...
The Firemen's Ball: Directed by Milos Forman. With Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka. A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.
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.
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty...
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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 town's volunteer fire...
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.
The firemen decide to have a ball. There'll be a drawing for prizes, a lot to eat and drink, a beauty contest and a ceremony to honor the old retired chief. Everyone in town will come.
