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Bohemian Rapture

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Directed by
  
Václav Krska

Edited by
  
Initial release
  
16 January 1947

Written by
  
Music by
  
Frantisek Skvor

Release date
  
16 January 1947

Director
  
Cinematography
  
Ferdinand Pečenka

Starring
  
Jaromír SpalVáclav VoskaKarel Dostal

Productioncompany
  
National Film Studios of Prague

Cast
  

Bohemian Rapture or The Violin and the Dream (Czech:Housle a sen) is a 1947 Czech historical drama film directed by Václav Krska 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 Nicolo Paganini.

In 1948 the film was released in the United States by the arthouse distributor Artkino. This release is sometimes treated as a separate film, but is simply an English-subtitled version of the Czech original. A 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.

Cast

  • Jaromír Spal as Josef Slavík
  • Václav Voska as Frédéric Chopin
  • Karel Dostal as Nicolo Paganini
  • Vlasta Fabiánová as Anna Zasmucka
  • Libuse Zemková as Henrietta Asifeldova
  • Jirina Krejcová as Magdalenka
  • Marie Vásová as The Unknown Woman
  • Eduard Kohout as Pavel Adam Lazansky
  • Vladimír Repa
  • Frantisek Smolík
  • Frantisek Roland
  • Ella Nollová
  • Václav Svorc
  • Jaroslav Mares
  • Jirí Mazác
  • Jan Mimra
  • Blanka Macková
  • Jarmila Kronbauerová
  • Jarmila Svabíková as Konstance Bayerová
  • Jirí Steimar as Baron Astfeld
  • Karel Jelínek
  • Anna Melísková
  • Ella Sárková
  • Lída Matousková
  • Jan W. Speerger
  • Zvonimir Rogoz
  • Karel Kalista as Gen. Kucera
  • Marie Nademlejnská
  • Slávka Vorlová as Chloe
  • Karel Luksík
  • Jirí Blazek
  • Vojta Novák
  • Antonín Kandert
  • Marta Májová
  • Antonín Solc
  • Kamil Olsovsky
  • Ruzena Gottliebová
  • Otakar Parik
  • References

    Bohemian Rapture Wikipedia


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