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Title: The Firemen's Ball (1967)
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Josef Valnoha | ... | Committee Member |
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Frantisek Debelka | ... | Committee Member #1 |
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Josef Kolb | ... | Josef |
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Jan Stöckl | ... | Retired Fire Chief |
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Vratislav Cermák | ... | Committee Member |
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Josef Rehorek | ... | Committee Member #4 |
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Václav Novotný | ... | Committee Member |
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Frantisek Reinstein | ... | Committee Member |
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Frantisek Paska | ... | Committee Member |
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Stanislav Holubec | ... | Karel |
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Josef Kutálek | ... | Ludva |
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Frantisek Svet | ... | Old Man |
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Ladislav Adam | ... | Committee Member |
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Plot Synopsis
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The volunteer fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things don't go as planned. Someone is stealing the prizes to the lottery and the candidates for the Miss Fire-Department beauty contest are neither willing nor particularly beautiful. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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Barevná komedie, v níz se tancí, krade a hasí. (A colorful comedy, in which people dance, steal and extinguish the fire.) See more »Parents Guide:
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Language:
CzechRelease Date:
29 September 1968 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Firemen's Ball and Lottery See more »Company Credits
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Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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Czechoslovakia's official submission to 41st Academy Award's Foreign Language in 1969. See more »Soundtracks
From Me to you(uncredited)
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Played by the band at the ball
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This film is great taken at face value. One does not really need to know anything about Czechoslovakia or the time period to appreciate its brilliance, the same way one does not need to know much about Medieval Denmark to appreciate Shakespeare's Hamlet. Therefore, I wish some of you here would refrain from making all kinds of clever comments about communism or how this film attempts to ridicule it. It's a simple story that is both hilarious and tragic, and it could have taken place anywhere. After all, human greed, dishonesty and stupidity are all around us. It just so happens this film was made in Czechoslovakia in 1967 by a Czech director, but the message is universal, and that is what makes it so great. So, to those of you who try read a whole bunch of stuff into it, please drop the condescending western attitude and just enjoy this gem of a movie without analyzing it too much.