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The Firemen's Ball
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Czech
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Comedy.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1967
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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 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
- Participant:
- František Reinstein, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Šebánek
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1967
- OCLC:
- 1300760053
- Publisher Number:
- 12814079 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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