| St. Wenceslas | |
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| Directed by | Jan S. Kolár |
| Written by | Jan S. Kolár Josef Munclinger František Horký |
| Starring | Zdeněk Štěpánek Jan W. Speerger |
| Cinematography | Karel Kopřiva Jan Stallich Otto Heller Václav Vích Jindřich Brichta |
| Music by | Oskar Nedbal Jaroslav Křička |
Production companies | Elekta-Journal Milenium-Film Praha |
| Distributed by | Gong-film |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 Minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
| Language | Czech |
| Budget | 4,500,000 Kčs[1] |
St. Wenceslas (Czech: Svatý Václav) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical film about Saint Wenceslas by Jan S. Kolár[2] It was the most expensive Czech film to date,[3] 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.[4]
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- ^ "Svatý Václav na ČT: Němý film, o kterém se hodně mluvilo". ČT24 (in Czech). Česká televize. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ "Epic silent-film era biopic "Saint Wenceslas" screen with long lost musical score". Czech Radio. Retrieved 15 February 2020.