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The Eternal Song

1941 · 24 min

A quiet, affectionate look at village music and dance, like leafing through a treasured scrapbook of a vanishing world.

Directed by
Karel Plicka
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Karel Beníško
Overview
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
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Karel Beníško
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • art
  • music
  • identity
  • aging
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension1
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Karel Plicka
Written by
Karel Plicka, Karel Baroch
Starring
Karel Beníško
Cinematography
Josef Míček
Runtime
24 min
Country
Czechoslovakia
Languages
Czech

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