The Firemen's Ball (Criterion Collection)
by Milos Forman
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Actor: Frantisek Debelka, Jan Vostrcil, Josef Kolb, Josef Sebanek, Josef ValnohaDirector: Milos Forman
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Czech (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Mono, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of The Firemen's Ball (Criterion Collection)
Movie Review: Dry Humor, Witty and Fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I still love this movie. It's an exaggeration of how people behave, under all forms of government, in my opinion. That's why most viewers can identify with it and find it amusing. Just read the book, Five-Finger Discount, which humorously outlines the every day petty theft of the American author's middleclass family and relatives, one an established lawyer. Of course the idea of incompetent firemen responding to a fire in the manner of the Three Stooges is another matter, and this wouldn't be funny in real life.
Summary of The Firemen's Ball (Criterion Collection)
A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's first color film The Firemen's Ball (Hor?, m? 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.Art House & International DVD Video
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