Movies: Karel Plicka
- 1930
Over Mountains, Over Valleys (1930)
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The Matica slovenská (a mostly government-sponsored cultural, academic, and archival institution) employed Karol Plicka (1894-1987) as its ethnographer, who was able to make documentary shorts from about 1926. He obtained funding from the President’s...
- 1945
Vlast vítá (1945)
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- 1970
National Artist Professor Karol Plicka (1970)
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A film portrait about Professor Karol Plicka, focusing on his films, photography and folklore work....
- 1941
The Eternal Song (1941)
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Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for future generations. Similarly, he records and interprets traditions associated with dance, folk song a...
- 1933
The Earth Sings (1933)
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A documentary of peasant life in an isolated village in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, starting in early spring and ending after the harvest....
- 1929
Spring in Carpathian Ruthenia (1929)
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Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge, every shot is working on its own, such as photographs, paintings and poetic complement intertitles in...
- 1943
Prague Baroque (1943)
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Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague....
- 1946
Cesta k barikádám (1946)
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- 1983
Vyznanie pútnika (1983)
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- 1945
Mr. President in Slovakia (1945)
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A short reportage from post-war Slovakia. President Edvard Beneš came to Banská Bystrica to celebrate the first anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising. His journey through Central Slovakia was a motivating and celebratory moment for the people a...
- 1931
News Film 0509 (1931)
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The news film, shot by Karol Plicka, shows the first Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk on holiday in the Czech countryside. Plicka was often called upon by Masaryk to photograph portraits and family and state gatherings. The film material...
- 1970
Na počiatku bola pieseň (1970)
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Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography....
- 1937
Drowning of Marzanna (1937)
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A perfect marketing film from the 1930s. The short film is an advertisement for Baťa's new products, presented through the traditional celebration of the end of winter – the carrying of a lighted Marzanna into a stream. Plicka once again stylisticall...
- 1937
Visiting Slovaks from New York through to Mississippi (1937)
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Having finished his film Jánošík (1935), Plicka embarks on the journey of a lifetime. Accompanied by a Slovak-Czech delegation of politicians, inventors, and cultural representatives, he is particularly interested in the life of Slovaks in America. H...
- 1946
Baroque Prague (1946)
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Plicka's work is an extreme case of the multilingual version and its war and post-war form recalls many period cultural and political contexts. After the war the original version was supplemented by Czech commentary and the soundtrack was replaced by...
- 1942
Cheb (1942)
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A Czech folklorist who received a prize for a visual myth about Slovakia The Earth Sings (1933) at the Venice Biennale, made for Prag-Film a film about the culture and traditions of the Cheb district (The Egerland, practically uninhabited by Czechs b...
- 1931
To All the Agricultural People... (1931)
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This short ethnographic film is the first part of the series Through the Agricultural World intended to promote village life and the work of the peasants to the townspeople. Plicka chooses stylistically significant and aesthetically impressive shots ...
- 1934
The Spring in Prague (1934)
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The original introductory part of Karol Plicka’s film The Earth Sings (1933), which was replaced with a sequence of shots of Bratislava during the era of the First Slovak Republic. Spring in Prague is a short film, a poem dedicated to Prague – a city...
- 1937
The President of the Republic dr. E. Beneš's visit (1937)
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A record of the trip of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Edvard Beneš to Slovakia. The footage maps the journey from Bratislava to central Slovakia, to the towns of Trenčianske Teplice and Mošovce....
- 1934
The Old Slovak Culture (1934)
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Slovak folklore presents its beauty not only in celebratory customs and children’s games. The short documentary proves that Plicka perceived poetry also in the everyday work of the people, in their determination and their diligence with which they we...