The Eternal Song

Film

The Eternal Song

XC
Director
Karel Plicka
Year
1941

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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Directed by

Karel Plicka

Written by

Karel Plicka, Karel Baroch