St. Wenceslas (1930)

Original title

Svatý Václav

Directed by

Jan Stanislav Kolár

Genre

drama film, adventure film, war film, historical film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A film about the life of Saint Wenceslas, the 10th-century Duke of Bohemia. It shows his struggles and battles, using huge sets and thousands of extras to depict the era.

epicgrandioseold-fashioneddramatichistoriclarge-scalepatriotic

What happens

St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas by Jan S. Kolár It was the most expensive Czech film to date, with the largest set constructed in Europe to accommodate an all-star cast of over a hundred, together with 5,000 extras for the lavish battle scenes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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