- Kytice
Infobox Film
name = Kytice
director =F. A. Brabec
producer =Deana Jakubiskova-Horváthová
writer = F. A. BrabecKarel Jaromír Erben (book)`
music =Jan Jirásek
cinematography = F. A. Brabec
editing =Boris Machytka
distributor =Bontonfilm
released =December 7 2000
runtime = 81 min.
country =Czech Republic
language = Czech
amg_id = 1:250525
imdb_id = 239102Infobox movie certificates
Argentina = 16"Kytice" (Czech for "Bouquet"; original full title was "Kytice z pověstí národních" - "A Bouquet of National Legends") is a collection of
ballad s by the Czech authorKarel Jaromír Erben , first published in 1853 and considered a classic. It is made up of 13 poems:
# Kytice
# Poklad (Treasure)
# Svatební košile (The Wedding Shirts)
# Polednice (Lady midday )
# Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning-Wheel)
# Štědrý den (Christmas Eve); made into amelodrama byZdeněk Fibich
# Holoubek (Little Dove)
# Záhořovo lože (Záhoř's Bed)
# Vodník (The Water-Goblin)
# Vrba (Willow)
# Lilie (Lily), added in the 1861 second edition
# Dceřina kletba (Daughter's Curse)
# Věštkyně (Seeress)"Kytice" was a 1972 loose adaptation to a theatre musical byJiří Suchý andFerdinand Havlík (music), one of the most popular pieces in the history of hisSemafor theatre."Kytice" (international title "Wild Flowers") is also a 2000 Czech film directed by
F. A. Brabec based on 7 best-known, most epic and least explicitly Christian of the poems; while relatively successful commercially, it was deplored by critics for its crude literalism of depiction.External links
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* [http://www.radio.cz/en/article/58317 Several rhymed translations and an interview with the translator Susan Reynolds] atRadio Prague website, 19 September 2004: transcript andRealAudio archive*
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