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The Firemen's Ball

The invasion of Soviet troops in 1968 brought an end to the Prague Spring, the relatively liberal period in the history of communist Czechoslovakia. Milos Forman's satirical comedy The Firemen's Ball, made a year earlier, was immediately banned 'permanently and forever' by the new authorities; the film was said to have presented a negative image of Czech society.


Director: Milos Forman
Release year: 1967

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Documentary on legendary Holland Pop Festival in Kralingse Bos on show

Filmmaker Ferri Ronteltap attended the Dutch Film Academy and subsequently made several short fiction films, documentaries and television programmes. A born and bred Rotterdammer, he stood admiringly at the fence of the Kralingse Bos in 1970 as a thirteen-year-old, but did not dare to enter. Now he...

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