A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
- Original title
- O slavnosti a hostech
- Directed by
- Jan Němec
- Genre
- drama film, parable
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 39 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of friends gather at a picnic and are gradually coerced into attending a surreal party by mysterious authorities. The film uses this gathering to criticize political control and social conformity.
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What happens
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 Czechoslovak political satire film directed by Jan Němec. It was banned in Czechoslovakia from 1966 to 1968 for being an allegory of socialist regimes. After a short release during the Prague Spring, it was banned again, this time for twenty years. In 1974, director Jan Němec was forced to leave the country. The film was entered in the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was aborted owing to the events of May 1968 in France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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