Multimedia Collection
The Firemen's Ball (Horí, má panenko)
DVD
73 min
1967
PN1995.9 .F67 H6 2002 DVD
A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's first color film The Firemen's Ball (Hori, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provacative 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 Forman's move to America.
In Czech with optional English subtitles.
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