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Title Julius Fučík
Production Date 1953
Country of Production Czechoslovakia
Duration 00:56:37
Production Company Czechoslovak State Film
Film Subject Era Pre-1917; 1917-1924; 1925-1939; 1946-1953
Genre Documentary; Biography
Summary Biography of Julius Fučík, the Czechoslovak journalist and prominent member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party who participated in the country's anti-Nazi resistance movement before he was tried and executed in 1943.
Subjects Family; Theatre; Arts and culture; Workers; Social class; Education; Factories; First World War (1914-1918); Poverty; Rationing; Journalism; Strikes; Bolsheviks; Russian Revolution (1917); Children; Murder; Demonstrations; Socialism; Poetry; Communist Party (Czechoslovakia); Communism; Wildlife and nature; Higher education; Politics; Propaganda; Anti-Communism; Economic crises; Miners and mining; Police; Imperialism; Capitalism; Political prisoners; Political parties and movements; Police brutality; Parades and marches; Newspapers; Industrialisation; Fascism; Red Army; Soviet army; Munich Agreement; Resistance movements; Occupation of territories; Nazism; Second World War (1939-1945); Torture; Executions; Gestapo; Wars
Director Parik, Otakar; Uzelac, Milivoj
Contributors
Camera:
Pešek, Josef

Editor:
Speerger, Oldrich

Production:
Kozeluh, Vladislav, Kolinsky, Milos

Text:
Mahler, Zdenek

Music:
Kaslik, Vaclav

Orchestra:
Film Symphony Orchestra

Scenario:
Jahn, Jiri

People Fučík, Julius (1903-1943); Gottwald, Klement (1896-1953); Stalin, Josef (1878-1953); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Heydrich, Reinhard (1904-1942); Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945)
Places Prague; Czechoslovakia; Pilsen (Plzeň); USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Moscow; Chotiměř
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Wars & Revolutions
BFI Identifier N-507288
Copyright The British Film Institute