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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })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. Seven middle-aged bourgeois folks, four men and three women, are having a picnic in a forest glade. They are enjoying themselves and talking idly. They see a noisy wedding procession pass by. Suddenly a group of intimidating Mooks, led by a smiling but distinctively creepy fellow named Rudolf, usher the picnicking friends into a clearing. They produce a desk and chair out of nowhere, and Rudolf sits them down and starts questioning the picnickers...Banned in Czechoslovakia by the Communist authorities. Later shown in that country during the "Prague Spring" of political freedom in 1968, then re-banned after Russian tanks restored authoritarianism, and not shown again there until after the Velvet Revolution that ended Communism in 1989.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Bilingual Bonus: "Slavnosti" could be translated as "festival" or "celebration", but when this movie was released in the Anglosphere it was rendered as "party", and then capitalized as "Party" as part of a title, making the political symbolism even more overt. | |
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Allegory: Symbolic of totalitarian repression in Czechoslovakia. The picnic is pre-war days. The menacing Rudolf and his gang of thugs is reminiscent of fascism and the Nazi invasion. The Host is the Soviet Communist authority, wearing a mask of friendship and brotherhood, but just as intolerant of dissent. And the one guest with the glasses who joins up with the Host represents Czechs who collaborate with the Russians. | |
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Bewildering Punishment: This film is often described as "Kafkaesque" and this was a favorite trope of Franz Kafka. Why do Rudolf and his goons descend on a group of picnickers? Why won't the Host let anyone leave? | |
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