Unfinished film.
Preserved are the following shots: ripe grain, a man praying, people in fetters being led by riders on horseback, work in a slate quarry, the mining of gold, the catching of river shellfish, a man cutting the grain with a sickle (Gustav Nezval), Prince Wenceslaus (Karel Höger) in a vineyard.
Preserved footage from an unfinished film begun in 1942. Silent exterior shots are extant only. This was the only film from the period of the Protectorate that was to have been shot on the direct insistence of the Nazi occupational authorities, and it was to give the legend of Saint Wenceslaus a German interpretation (Prince Wenceslaus as a German vassal). Preparations for the filming were consciously protracted, and in spite of the fact that the roles had been cast, only filming of the rehearsals took place, all of them shot in the exterior locations. For reasons of "material scarcity" after two years of the production process the project was quietly liquidated.
kníže Václav
Boleslav, Václavův bratr
kněžna Drahomíra, Václavova a Boleslavova matka
kněžna Ludmila, Václavova a Boleslavova babička
mnich
rolník
kněz Pavel
pohanský kněz Žrec
vladyka Důdleb
mladý vladyka
mladý vladyka
mladý vladyka
křesťanský vladyka
otrok Zury
pohanský vladyka
Drahomířina otrokyně
Drahomířina otrokyně
Prokop Pěkný, Stanislav Pavlík
Jaromír Novák, Betty Adolfová, Josef Žebrakovský, Božena Houšková, Jiří Kalina, František Mašek, František Novák, Marie Sandrová, Františka Smíšková, Františka Seimlová
Jaroslav Niklas, Jaroslav Kulhavý, Vladimír Vlček, Karel Beran, Slavomíra Čechová, Vladimír Hrubeš, Jiří Sobotka, Eduard Zachystal
Miroslav Rutte (jazykový poradce), Václav Dobš, mjr. Jan Pulkrábek, Alžběta Birnbaumová
Horažďovice, Mělnicko, vinice (Mělnicko), Suchdol u Prahy, Sušicko, Praha, Šárka (Praha), Beroun, Křivoklát, Otava, Kouřim, Mělník, Šumava
Kníže Václav
Kníže Václav
Prince Wenceslas
Herzog Wenzel
film
featuretheatrical distribution
partially realised project
drama, historical
Czechoslovakia
1942
1942
date of censorship nepředloženo cenzuře
premiere neproběhla
no caption
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
Tobis – Klang
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech, German