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Film Description
Distinguished by being 'banned forever' in its native Czechoslovakia, Němec's film The Party and the Guests is perhaps the most politically dangerous film made during the flowering of the Czech cinema in the 1960s. Not only a biting allegory on totalitarianism and an unflinching satire on conformity, its astute observations of human nature also make it an universally relevant film.
Film Information
| Director | Jan Nemec | ||||
| Starring | Jan Klusák, Ivan Vyskocil, Jiri Nemec
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | Czechoslovakia | Language | CZECH | Year | 1966 |
DVD Extras
Newly filmed appreciation by author/film programmer Peter Hames; New digital transfer with restored image and sound; New and improved English subtitle translation; Booklet featuring a new essay by writer/DVD producer Michael Brooke.
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 67 mins | Label | 2RUN | ||
| Cat No | SECONDRUN020 | Format | DVD | Black & White | |||
| Region | 0 | Aspect | 1.33:1 | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by Michael Brooke on 1st February 2007
A welcome and long overdue release for one of the greatest masterpieces of the Czech New Wave. Jan Nemec's viciously sly allegory of totalitarianism is squarely in the tradition of Kafka and Buñuel as seven bourgeois picnickers find themselves rounded up and interrogated about obscure technicalities before becoming honoured guests of a dapper, deceptively genial man who seems devoted to nothing more than ensuring that his lavish birthday celebrations come off without a hitch. Setting all this entirely in the open air, Nemec creates a bucolic atmosphere that initially recalls Renoir. Look more closely, though, and it becomes clear that the dialogue is riddled with banal cliché, and that his characters only care about superficial surface detail. This makes it that much easier for them to abandon their principles, assuming they had any to begin with. Tellingly, the only truly honourable figure barely utters a word - after all, what's the point, when no-one's listening? Second Run's DVD includes a video introduction by Czech cinema expert Peter Hames, and the usual extensive booklet essay.
View more reviews by Michael Brooke
Article - "Cooked Right to the Bone: The Party and the Guests"
by Graeme Hobbs
Thursday 15th March 2007
A three-way conversational review of Jan Němec's absurdist, theatrical satire from 1966 on enforced one-party politics, The Party and the Guests. The review is in the spirit of Němec's statement, "If, from the first scene, it is apparent that any sup... View article in full
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