(HORÍ, MÁ PANENKO, Milos Forman, Czechoslovakia 1967, 71 min., Czech/subtitles)

This thinly veiled political allegory and satire depicts the mounting mayhem that begins when a small town’s fire department decides to throw a big party. Forman’s last Czech production, a sharp and lucid depiction of human weakness and moral decay, was originally banned in his homeland. Preceded by DECATHALON (1972, 10 min.), Forman’s contribution to the omnibus documentary, Visions of Eight, commissioned for the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games.