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Title Journey to the West
Production Date 1963
Country of Production Czechoslovakia
Duration 00:16:57
Production Company Czechoslovak State Film
Film Subject Era 1925-1939; 1939-1945; 1946-1953; 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary Short film lauding the current condition of western Czechoslovakia, and attacking the willingness of West Germany to conduct trade with its neighbour without establishing diplomatic relations.
Original Title Cesta na Západ
Subjects Education; Children; Leisure; Free healthcare; International trade; Anti-American sentiments; Germans; German army; Nazism; Holocaust; Concentration camps; Housing; Hydroelectric power stations; Industry; Death; Neo-Nazism; Agriculture and farming; National borders
Director Pešek, Josef
Contributors
Music:
Lucký, Štěpán

Photography:
Roger, Bedřich

Editing:
Pavlíček, Ludvík

Production:
Brada, Petr

Writing:
Pešek, Josef

People Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967); Henlein, Konrad (1898-1945)
Places Czechoslovakia; West Germany (FDR); Germany
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Film Format 16mm Comb col pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Wars & Revolutions
BFI Identifier N-504348
Copyright The British Film Institute