Bohemian Rapture

Bohemian Rapture
Bohemian Rapture
Directed by	Václav Krška
Written by	Václav Krška
Starring	Jaromír Spal; Václav Voska; Karel Dostal;
Cinematography
Edited by	Jan Kohout
Music by
Production; company	Československá filmová společnost
Distributed by	Státní půjčovna filmů
Release date	16 January 1947
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

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[]

Jaromír Spal as Josef Slavík
Václav Voska as Frédéric Chopin
Karel Dostal as Nicolo Paganini
Vlasta Fabianová as Anna Zásmucká
as Henrietta Astfeldová
as Magdalenka
as The Unknown Woman
Eduard Kohout as Count Pavel Adam Lažanský,
as Teacher W. W. Würfel
František Smolík as Father Quardián
as Constance Bayerová
as Baron Astfeld
Jan W. Speerger as Thug
Zvonimir Rogoz as Conductor
as General Kučera

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[]

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

Bibliography[]

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

External links[]

Bohemian Rapture at IMDb
Housle a sen at IMDb

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[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.

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