The Firemen's Ball

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In Theaters: September 29, 1968 (limited)

1h 13m | Comedy, Drama


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 critics simply accepted the film as the slapsticky tale of a disastrous small-town celebration in honor of a retiring fire chief, and laughed accordingly.

Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha, Josef Kolb, Stanislav Holubec, Josef Kutálek
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