Karel Plicka Movies

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...