Karel Plicka

Most Popular Karel Plicka Trailers

Total trailers found: 21

Vyznanie pútnika Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

The Eternal Song Trailer (1941)

01 January 1941

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.

National Artist Professor Karol Plicka Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

A film portrait about Professor Karol Plicka, focusing on his films, photography and folklore work.

News Film 0509 Trailer (1931)

29 September 1931

The news film, shot by Karol Plicka, shows the first Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk on holiday in the Czech countryside.

The Spring in Prague Trailer (1934)

14 October 1934

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.

The President of the Republic dr. E. Beneš's visit Trailer (1937)

07 October 1937

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.

Drowning of Marzanna Trailer (1937)

07 October 1937

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.

Visiting Slovaks from New York through to Mississippi Trailer (1937)

07 October 1937

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.

The Old Slovak Culture Trailer (1934)

08 October 1934

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 were able to create a legacy for the next generation in a unique connection with traditions and Slovak nature.

Baroque Prague Trailer (1946)

07 October 1946

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.

To All the Agricultural People... Trailer (1931)

06 October 1931

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.

Na počiatku bola pieseň Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography.

Over Mountains, Over Valleys Trailer (1930)

13 March 1930

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.

Spring in Carpathian Ruthenia Trailer (1929)

01 January 1929

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied.

Prague Baroque Trailer (1943)

01 January 1943

Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague.

The Earth Sings Trailer (1933)

27 October 1933

A cinematic poem with an impressive soundtrack that complements and completes the cinematic sketches of the folk culture of the Slovak nation previously made by ethno-photographer and director Karel Plicka.

Egerland Trailer (1943)

01 January 1943

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 by then), for which a propagandistic prologue and epilogue was shot by F.

Cesta k barikádám Trailer (1946)

03 May 1946

Vlast vítá Trailer (1945)

23 November 1945

Mr. President in Slovakia Trailer (1945)

26 October 1945

A short reportage from post-war Slovakia. President Edvard Beneš came to Banská Bystrica to celebrate the first anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.

Za slovenským ľudom Trailer (1928)

01 January 1928

Folk architecture, costumes, work, customs and traditions, dances, and other expressions of traditional life in Slovak villages.