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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 Czechoslovakian political satire film directed by Jan Němec. It was banned in Czechoslovakia from 1966 to 1968 for being an allegory of socialist regimes.
Summaries. A small group of bourgeois guests head for a birthday party of a prominent figure. As they go through the woods and have a picnic, they are suddenly surrounded by a bunch of suspicious strangers. A small group of adult bourgeois friends are on a day out in the country, which includes having a picnic.
Jan 17, 2023 · In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an international success after it premiered at the New York Film Festival.
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an international success after it premiered at the New York Film Festival.
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A Report on the Party and the Guests is an oddly nonsensical film about two groups of people who encounter one another in a forest and go on to a bizarre formal banquet in a clearing. The first, smaller group knows nothing about the gathering or the man it's supposed to honor yet they're quickly sucked into the bizarre goings on.
A Report on the Party and the Guests ( O slavnosti a hostech, literally "about the festival and guests") is a 1966 film from the former Czechoslovakia, in Czech, directed by Jan Nemec. It is a thinly veiled allegorical satire about communism in Czechoslovakia.
Apr 19, 2014 · A Report on the Party and the Guests - Harvard Film Archive. (O slavnosti a hostech) Screening on Film. Directed by Jan Nemec. With Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Evald Schorm. Czechoslovakia, 1966, 35mm, black & white, 70 min. Czech with English subtitles.
