The Party and the Guests
Maybe one day the Czechs will see this picture again.
A darkly surreal political allegory about conformity and tyranny, where a pleasant bourgeois outing becomes a nightmarish confrontation with authoritarian control.
A group of the bourgeois head for a prominent figure's birthday party. As they venture through the woods and have a picnic, they're suddenly surrounded by some suspicious strangers.
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