CGAC pays tribute to the late, great Milos Forman with the film that catapulted him to the U.S. and the Oscar-winning blockbusters (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) that followed. A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes right - from a beauty pageant whose reluctant contestants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered. Presumed to be a commentary on the communist system, the film was “banned forever” in Czechoslovakia following the Soviet invasion and prompted Forman’s move to America and international stardom.