CinemaOSMovie · 1939 · 0h 18m

The Rape of Czechoslovakia

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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).

Directed byJiří Weiss

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0h 18m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1939

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Jiří Weiss
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