Horí, má panenko ( The Firemen's Ball )

Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. The volunteer fire department in a small Czechoslovak town decides to organize a ball in a townhall with lottery and a beauty contest. The unit's firemen plan a tribute to their 86 year old honorary chairman with an engraved miniature ax.  During the ball,the committee is gathered to look for eight candidates for the beauty contest ,but they have difficulty to find enough of them. But things start going as wrong as they possibly could. The lottery prizes keep getting stolen at an increasing rate and the general chaos grows more and more out of control. The director creates a focused attack on the communist system and the effect of its policies on a working class community.

 Here director is indirectly criticising not just a decadent society, but the communist regime whose lawlessness and twisted sense of values brought about the decay. It makes the point more clear when an actual fire breaks out in the town. Milos Forman was charged with sabotaging the socialist society. This film was banned “permanently and forever” by Communist censors at that time.