Film: The Firemen’s Ball

A showing of the 1967 Czechoslovak film Hoří Má Panenko at UW Cinematheque.

This thinly veiled political allegory and satire depicts the mounting mayhem that begins when a small town’s fire department decides to throw a big party. Forman’s last Czech production, a sharp and lucid depiction of human weakness and moral decay, was originally banned in his homeland.