A Report on the Party and the Guests

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Venue Bio Oko
Address Františka Křížka 15, Praha 7
Origin Czechoslovakia
Original name O slavnosti a hostech
Movie genre Czech, Podobenství
Entry CZK 70
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Length 67 min
Director Jan Němec
Links IMDB
Release 1966
Ranking 76 %

Performing: Ivan Vyskočil, Jan Klusák, Jiří Němec, Pavel Bošek, Karel Mareš, Evald Schorm, Jana Prachařová, Zdena Salivarová-Škvorecká, Helena Pejšková, Miloň Novotný, Dana Němcová, Antonín Pražák, Josef Podaný, Otakar Bohata, Josef Hrbek, Jaromír Komínek, Jiří Kovařík, Adolf Široký

Distinguished by being “banned forever” in its native Czech Republic, Jan Nemec's A Report on the Party is a great film from the flowering of the Czech cinema in the 1960s. It is a political thriller that satirizes unquestionable conformity. A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them, a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical, but elegant and formal banquet outdoors. Nemec documents the process of self-deception and rationalization which lead to an acceptance of constrant; free will and freedom are seen as difficult to maintain and easily discarded. The affair is bizarre, and ends when one of the guests (played by film director Evald Schorm) chooses not to remain and escapes. His compatriots agree that he must be recaptured, and the group arms and hunts him down. The film concludes with the nightmarish barking of search dogs.

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