Egerland

(festival title)
  • Czechoslovakia Chebsko
Short / Documentary
Czechoslovakia, 1943, 13 min

Directed by:

Karel Plicka

Plots(1)

A Czech folklorist who received a prize for a visual myth about Slovakia The Earth Sings (1933) at the Venice Biennale, made for Prag-Film a film about the culture and traditions of the Cheb district (The Egerland, practically uninhabited by Czechs by then), for which a propagandistic prologue and epilogue was shot by F. B. Nier. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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