In a film from this country, two women wearing suits made out of newspaper whisper to each other as they clean up a dining room they had destroyed in an earlier scene. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country that produced that film about the antics of Marie I and Marie II, Věra Chytilová’s Daisies. The fire department of a small town holds a ball in another film from this country.
ANSWER: Czechoslovakia [accept Czech Republic or Czechia or Česká republika; accept Czechoslovak New Wave or Czech New Wave; reject “Slovakia”]
[10e] This member of the Czech New Wave made The Firemen’s Ball before moving to the United States, where he directed One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus.
ANSWER: Miloš Forman [or Jan Tomáš Forman]
[10h] In this New Wave film by Jaromil Jireš (“YAR-oh-mill YEE-resh”), a pale-faced constable turns into a weasel and a magic earring protects the title 13-year-old girl from being burned at the stake after she escapes her vampiric grandmother.
ANSWER: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [or Valerie a týden divů] (Some modern discourse on this film points out the potentially exploitative nature of sexually charged scenes involving its underaged lead actress.)
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