The Firemen's Ball

Wednesday at noon we had our final class and watched The Firemen's Ball.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061781/
 Another Milos Foreman movie (Loves of a Blonde), The Firemen's Ball follows the plan to throw a party for the President's 86th birthday. The firemen are a group of bumbling idiots who represent the Communist Party.
This movie was banned soon after it was released in 1967 because it was offensive to the Communists. The movie, however, never mentions communism, so by admitting to the offensiveness, the Communists are admitting to their own stupidity.
One of my favorite parts of the movie is when an old man's house burns down, and the firemen bring him to the stage and award him with all of the raffle tickets from the night, and the man says something along the lines of "my house burned down, I need money, all of these are useless to me". It represents the sentiment that many people had for communism at the time.
After class I packed most of my things and at night I went to the Jazz Dock for several performances that are part of the month-long POMS festival in Prague.
I was there for about 3 hours, there was a cool female string quartet followed by an American duo and then a 3 part male jazz combo. I wanted to stay later, but it was really smoky in the bar and my throat was on fire.
When I got back to the dorms, I made sure my alarm was set for 4:30am. Ali and I were planning on leaving at 5:30 so we could take the metro to a bus to the airport since neither of us had enough money for a cab.