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  1. The Firemen's Ball (or Fireman's Ball; Czech: Hoří, Má Panenko - "Fire, My Lady") is a 1967 Czechoslovak New Wave satirical comedy directed by Miloš Forman. It is set at the annual ball of a small town's volunteer fire department, and the plot portrays a series of disasters that occur during the evening.

  2. The Firemen's Ball: Directed by Milos Forman. With Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka. A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

  3. Sep 17, 2022 · A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes rightfrom a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered.

  4. A volunteer firemen's ball in a provincial town becomes a chaotic and absurd farce, exposing the hypocrisy and corruption of the communist regime. The film was a Czech-Italian co-production, nominated for an Oscar, and banned in Czechoslovakia for years.

  5. A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemens ball where nothing goes rightfrom a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered.

  6. Aug 4, 2002 · Milos Forman's "The Firemen's Ball" was banned "permanently and forever" by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1968, as Soviet troops marched in to suppress a popular uprising. It was said to be a veiled attack on the Soviet system and its bureaucracy, a charge Forman prudently denied at the time but now happily agrees with.

  7. In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings...