The Rape of Czechoslovakia

Overview

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).

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1939

Original language

English

Countries

United Kingdom

Director

Jiří Weiss

Writer

Cecil Day-Lewis,Basil Wright

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0176088