'' A Report on the Party and the Guests '' ( , also known in English as '' The Party and the Guests '' ) is a 1966 Czechoslovak political satire film directed by Jan Němec . It was entered for the 1968 Cannes Film Festival , but the festival was aborted owing to the events of May 1968 in France . The film was banned from 1966 to 1968 for being perceived as an allegory of totalitarian regimes . After a short release during the Prague Spring it was banned again for the next twenty years . In 1974 director Jan Němec was forced to leave the country
1968 Cannes Film Festival
1968 Cannes Film Festival
A Report on the Party and the Guests