A Report on the Party and the Guests

A Report on the Party and the Guests
Film poster
Directed by Jan Němec
Produced by Jan Procházka
Written by Ester Krumbachová
Jan Němec
Starring Ivan Vyskočil
Cinematography Jaromír Sofr
Edited by Oldřich Bosák
Production
company
Filmové Studio Barrandov
Distributed by Sigma III
Release date
  • 30 December 1966 (1966-12-30)
Running time
 71 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech

A Report on the Party and the 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 entered for the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[1] 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. After a short release during the Prague Spring it was banned again for the next twenty years. In 1974 director Jan Němec was forced to leave the country.[2]

Cast

  • Ivan Vyskočil as host
  • Jan Klusák as Rudolf
  • Jiří Němec as Josef
  • Pavel Bošek as František
  • Karel Mareš as Karel
  • Evald Schorm
  • Jana Prachařová
  • Zdena Škvorecká as Eva
  • Miloň Novotný as groom
  • Helena Pejsková as Marta
  • Dana Němcová as bride Olinka
  • Antonín Pražák as Antonín
  • Josef Škvorecký as Guest

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: A Report on the Party and the Guests". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  2. ↑ Robert Buchar (29 October 2003). Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews. McFarland. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-7864-1720-9.
  • A Report on the Party and the Guests on IMDb
  • "Criterion Collection Essay".
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