The Rape of Czechoslovakia
1939 | 18m | English
Popularity: 0.1 (history)
| Director: | Jiří Weiss |
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| Writer: | Basil Wright |
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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). | |
| Release Date: | Jan 01, 1939 |
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| Director: | Jiří Weiss |
| Writer: | Basil Wright |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 21, 2026 Entered: May 12, 2024 |
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| Name | Job |
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| Jiří Weiss | Director |
| Nicholas Blake | Lyricist |
| Basil Wright | Writer |
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