Karel Plicka Movies

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...