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Title In the Heart of Europe
Production Date 1968
Country of Production Czechoslovakia
Duration 01:06:54
Production Company Czechoslovak Filmexport
Film Subject Era 1917-1924; 1925-1939; 1939-1945
Genre Documentary
Summary Documentary illustrating the history of Czechoslovakia from a communist perspective.
Original Title V Srdci Evropy
Subjects Independence movements; Czech army; International relations; Class war; Social class; Marxism; Banking and finance; Inflation; Currency; Politics; Political parties and movements; Agricultural workers; Communism; Democracy; Parades and marches; Fascism; Politicians; Revolutions; Football; Second World War (1939-1945); Nazism; Economic crises; League of Nations; Occupation of territories; Underground railways; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Refugees; Demonstrations; Resistance movements; Assassinations; Ethnic cleansing; Executions; Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943); Liberation; Concentration camps; Reconstruction; Nationalisation; Elections; Marshall Plan; Cold War; Wars
Director Holub, Drahoslav
Contributors
Camera:
Pešek, Josef

Music Director:
Šust, Jiří

Sound:
Cajthaml, Karel

Production Manager:
Vanek, Antonin

Script:
Drahoslav, Holub

Screenplay:
Drahoslav, Holub

People Švehla, Antonín (1873-1933); Rašín, Alois (1867-1923); Stříbrný, Jiří (1880-1955); Šrobár, Vavro (1867-1950); Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue (1850-1937); Štefánik, Milan Rastislav (1880-1919); Hodža, Milan (1878-1944); Gajda, Radola (1892-1948); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Beneš, Edvard (1884-1948); Werich, Jan (1905-1980); Voskovec, Jiří (1905-1981); Čapek, Karel (1890-1938); Hácha, Emil (1872-1945); Heydrich, Reinhard (1904-1942); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Stalin, Josef (1878-1953); Šmidke, Karol (1897-1952); Husák, Gustáv (1913-1991); Lettrich, Jozef (1905-1969); Tiso, Jozef (1887-1947); Masaryk, Jan Garrigue (1886-1948); Gottwald, Klement (1896-1953); Slánský, Rudolf (1901-1952)
Places Sudetenland; Czechoslovakia; Prague; USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Germany; Lidice; Stalingrad (Volgograd)
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Language English (Narrator)
Module Wars & Revolutions
Copyright The British Film Institute