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	TITLE: The Unknown Antonin Dvorak
	Director: Vlastimil Simunek Genre: Music documentary Format: HD Composer: Contributors: Presented and narrated by Antonin Dvorak III Company: Studio Prague Runtime: 52' minutes. ID: 431.

SYNOPSIS

A very private film by Vlastimil Šimůnek who takes us to the village Vysoká near Prague where Antonín Dvořák used to spend his summers in a villa, he had built and which after his death was named Rusalka after his famous opera. This house has never been opened to the public and is now being looked after by the grandson Antonín Dvořák III. He shows us around and tells us a lot things about his grandfather hardly anyone knows, in particular about events related to the composer´s travels to the United States. Dvorak was a quiet man, loving the Czech country side and feeling more at ease playing cards at the local Vysoká pub than making polite conversation in salons. Unknown documents from private archives, the Library of Congress and sound tracks of Symphony No. 9 “from the New World”, Concerto for Cello No. 2 and String Quartet No. 12 round off this intimate portrait of a composer we thought we knew all about.