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| The Firemen's Ball - Criterion Collection |
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A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's first color film The Firemen's Ball (Hor'92, m'87 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.
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| upc: | 0037429165522 |
| title: | The Firemen's Ball - Criterion Collection |
| theatricalDate: | 29-09-1968 |
| purchase date: | 19-02-2006 |
| publisher: | Criterion |
| published: | 12-02-2002 |
| price: | $29.95 |
| numberInSeries: | 145 |
| net Rating: | 4.5 |
| MPAA Rating: | NR |
| minutes: | 73 |
| last lookup time: | 162092720 |
| genre: | Satire Farce Party Films Czech Republic & Slovakia Black Comedy |
| fullTitle: | The Firemen's Ball - Criterion Collection |
| features: | Color Subtitled NTSC 1.33:1 |
| director: | Milos Forman |
| currentValue: | $21.39 |
| created: | 162092672 |
| country: | us |
| aspect: | DVD |
| asin: | B00005UQ7Q |