Karel Plicka

The Matica slovenská (a mostly government-sponsored cultural, academic, and archival institution) employed Karol Plicka (1894-1987) as its ethnogra...

13 de mar. de 1930

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

26 de out. de 1945

23 de nov. de 1945

A documentary of peasant life in an isolated village in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, starting in early spring and ending after the harvest.

27 de out. de 1933

Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague.

02 de nov. de 1943

Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for...

01 de jan. de 1941

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge...

01 de jan. de 1929

Having finished his film Jánošík (1935), Plicka embarks on the journey of a lifetime. Accompanied by a Slovak-Czech delegation of politicians, inve...

07 de out. de 1937

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

29 de set. de 1931

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 ...

14 de out. de 1934

A record of the trip of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Edvard Beneš to Slovakia. The footage maps the journey from Bratislava to centra...

07 de out. de 1937

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 pe...

06 de out. de 1931

Slovak folklore presents its beauty not only in celebratory customs and children’s games. The short documentary proves that Plicka perceived poetry...

08 de out. de 1934

A perfect marketing film from the 1930s. The short film is an advertisement for Baťa's new products, presented through the traditional celebration ...

07 de out. de 1937

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 a...

01 de out. de 1942

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. Aft...

07 de out. de 1946

01 de jan. de 1928