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Bohemian Rapture
Directed byVáclav Krska
Written byVáclav Krska
StarringJaromír Spal
Václav Voska
Karel Dostal
CinematographyFerdinand Pecenka
Edited byJan Kohout
Music byFrantisek Skvor
Production
company
National Film Studios of Prague
Release date
16 January 1947
Running time
108 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguageCzech

Bohemian Rapture or The Violin and the Dream (Czech:Housle a sen) is a 1947 Czech historical drama film directed by Václav Krska and starring Jaromír Spal, Václav Voska and Karel Dostal.[1] The film portrays the life of the Czech violinist Josef Slavík, a contemporary of Frédéric Chopin, and a rival of Nicolo Paganini.

In 1948 the film was released in the United States by the arthouse distributor Artkino. This release is sometimes treated as a separate film, but is simply an English-subtitled version of the Czech original. A New York Times review of the film was negative, criticising it as "an unusual but decidedly confusing and unrewarding offering" and attacking in particular its use of disjointed flashback sequences.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Liehm & Liehm p.97
  2. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990DE7DA1E38E33BBC4E52DFB4668383659EDE

Bibliography

  • Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.


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