Bohemian Rapture
Directed byVáclav Krška
Written byVáclav Krška
Starring
CinematographyFerdinand Pečenka
Edited byJan Kohout
Music byFrantisek Škvor
Production
company
Československá filmová společnost
Distributed byStátní půjčovna filmů
Release date
16 January 1947
Running time
104 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 Krška and starring Jaromír Spal, Václav Voska and Karel Dostal. The film portrays the life of the Czech violinist Josef Slavík, a contemporary of Frédéric Chopin, and a rival of Niccolò Paganini.[1]

Cast

Release

The film premiered on 31 January 1947. In 1948 the film was released in the United States by the USSR distributor Artkino. This release is sometimes treated as a separate film, but is simply an English-subtitled version of the Czech original. The 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]

References

  1. ↑ Liehm, Mira; Liehm, Antonín J. (1977). The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press. p. 97.
  2. ↑ "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. 30 July 2021.

Bibliography

  • The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.


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