Fire! Fire! At Last Something's Going On

Fire! Fire! At Last Something's Going On — Plot

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from a film studio to join a project proposed by the Germans: what do teenagers in your country do on Saturday at 5 pm? Images from the lives of teenagers from Kętrzyn make up a contrasting slice of free time in a small town. Firemen maneuvering to start a fire outside working hours, bodybuilders training, choir rehearsal, dancing in Hitler's former headquarters...

• Release date
• December 31, 1967
• Runtime
• 13 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Marek Piwowski