The Firemen's Ball
Summary:
Firemen's Ball was Czechoslovakian director Milos Forman's final film in his home country; he was scouting locations in Paris when the Russians moved their tanks into Prague in 1968 causing Forman to decide to remain an expatriate. Because of the supercharged political climate of the era, critics read all sorts of allegory and hidden meanings into the Firemen's Ball. Other cr... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Vaclav Stockel - (Fire Brigade Commander)
Josef Svet - (Old Man)
Jan Vostrcil - (Committee Chairman)
Josef Valnoha - (Adjutant)
Josef Kolb - (Josef)
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Review:
Milos Forman's last film in his native Czechoslovakia is a mordant attack on the pettiness and hypocrisy of the middle class. Essentially plotless, the 73-minute feature is set at a ball thrown by the firemen of a small town in honor of their retired chief. The party gradually devolves into a farcical mess, culminating in a fire that burns down ... Continue >>
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