United Kingdom / Jan 01, 1939
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
Weiss’s classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his unrealized film ‘Dvacet Let Svobody’ (‘Twenty Years of Freedom’) i.e. 20 years of the existence of independent Czechoslovakia from its 1918 founding to 1938 when the Munich Agreement dissolved it. In English with poetic narration written by C. Day-Lewis (father of Daniel Day-Lewis).
Genres
Documentary
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Rape of Czechoslovakia |
| Original language | English (EN) |
| Spoken languages | English |
| Production countries | United Kingdom |
| Status | Released |
| Release date | 1 gennaio 1939 |
| Writer | Basil Wright, Cecil Day-Lewis |
| Assistant directors | Jiří Weiss |
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