Karel Plicka

Baroque Prague (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. After the war the original version was supplemented by Czech commentary and the soundtrack was replaced by new m ...

Cesta k barikádám (1946)

Vlast vítá (1945)

Mr. President in Slovakia (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. His journey through Central Slovakia was a motivating and celebratory moment for the people and t ...

Prague Baroque (1943)

Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague. ...

Egerland (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 ...

The Eternal Song (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. Similarly, he records and interprets traditions associated with dance, folk song and loc ...

Drowning of Marzanna (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. Plicka once again stylistically o ...

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

Visiting Slovaks from New York through to Mississippi (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. He o ...

The Spring in Prague (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. Spring in Prague is a short film, a poem dedicated to Prague – a city of ...

The Old Slovak Culture (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 abl ...

The Earth Sings (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. With its perfectly constructed dramaturgy, the do ...

Vyznanie pútnika (1983)

National Artist Professor Karol Plicka (1970)

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

Na počiatku bola pieseň (1970)

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