A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966) (O Slavnosti a Hostech) (1966)

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Directed by

Jan Nemec

Starring (View all)

Jana Pracharová
Paní

Zdena Skvorecka
Eva

Pavel Bosek
Frantisek

Evald Schorm
Manzel

Jan Klusák
Rudolf

Jiri Nemec
Josef

Ivan Vyskocil
Hostitel

Jana Novaková
Svatebcanka

Written by

Ester Krumbachová
screenplay

Jan Nemec

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Description: 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; ... (more)