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A Report on the Party and Guests (Czech: O slavnosti a hostech, also known in English as The Party and the Guests) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian political satire film directed by Jan Němec. It was banned in Czechoslovakia from 1966 to 1968 for being an allegory of socialist regimes.
Mar 27, 2021 · Jan Němec, drama, Czech New Wave, English-subtitles, banned. Language. Czech. In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
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Jan 17, 2023 · In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
A Report on the Party and Guests. In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
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A Report on the Party and Guests is a 1966 Czechoslovak political satire film directed by Jan Němec. It was entered for the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was aborted owing to the events of May 1968 in France. The film was banned from 1966 to 1968 for being perceived as an allegory of totalitarian regimes.
A group of friends picnicking in the woods are accosted by intruders who force them to play a set of ridiculous party games. Director Jan Němec’s absurdist parable on the behavior of authority figures is a landmark of the Czech New Wave and a satirical portrait of power.
Apr 2, 2021 · A Report on the Party and the Guests is a surrealist allegory similar to Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel, which also featured bourgeois partygoers who were captive to boundaries they couldn’t fully define.
