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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.
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- Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
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...
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Sep 17, 2022 · 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 ...
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Aug 4, 2002 · The ancient fireman, diagnosed with cancer, will be presented with a handsome miniature fire ax in a velvet-lined box. Some feel the old fireman represents the values and traditions of the pre-Soviet years.
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.
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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 at...
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