IMDb plot summary: A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.
Directed by Milos Forman. Starring Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, and Frantisek Debelka.
What a strange tiny little comedy! There are some pieces of this that made me laugh out loud hard -- the ongoing problem of people stealing the raffle prizes in particular -- but there's also a very long, very uncomfortable section about a beauty contest where all the women (characters, not actors) are clearly having a terrible time and it's played for laughs, and that didn't land for me at all. But it's definitely worth a watch. This was apparently Milos Forman's last movie in Czechosovakia, and it became quite a controversial one for its portrayal of government programs.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Firemen's Ball > Yellow Submarine
The Firemen's Ball < Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
The Firemen's Ball < The Gold Rush
The Firemen's Ball < Camp
The Firemen's Ball > Rushmore
The Firemen's Ball < Duck Soup
The Firemen's Ball > All the Money in the World
The Firemen's Ball < Pitch Perfect 2
The Firemen's Ball < The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe (1988)
The Firemen's Ball < Mrs. Miniver
The Firemen's Ball > Downfall
Final spot: #1437 out of 3123.
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