Karel Plicka Movies

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

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

A cinematic poem with an impressive soundtrack that complements and completes the cinematic sketches of the folk culture of the Slovak nation...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The original introductory part of Karol Plicka’s film The Earth Sings (1933), which was replaced with a sequence of shots of Bratislava during...

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...

Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague.

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

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

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...