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The Eternal Song (1941)

Directed by Karel Plicka

Documentary · 24m

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 local stories that vary from region to region in his film The Eternal Song. The short documentary presents merry-making in Slovak and Czech regions that are changing with the coming modernization and transformation of musical records.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Karel Plicka
Screenplay
Karel Plicka, Karel Baroch
Director of Photography
Josef Míček
Editor
Josef Dobřichovský

Details

Original title
Věčná píseň
Release date
1941-01-01
Runtime
24m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
CS
Spoken languages
Czech
Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production
Bapoz