Dva Svety

Year of Publication
1976
Publication Type
Screenplay
Number of Pages or Episodes
129 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Dusan Siroky
Author: Stefan Sokol
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Abstract
In 1976, Slovak television produced this film adaptation of Thomas Bell’s classic Pittsburgh novel. Dva Svety (1949), which translates to "two worlds," is the first Slovak translation of Out of This Furnace (1941), the semi-autobiographical family saga of three generations of an immigrant Slovak and Rusyn family—the Dobrejcaks—from 1881 to 1937 in the steel mills of Braddock and Homestead.
Notes

Based on Dva Svety (1949), Jan Trachta's Slovak translation of Out of This Furnace (1941) by Thomas Bell.

Settings are referred to by their historical names as follows: Carnegie Mellon University is Carnegie Technical Institute; Kennywood Park is Kenny's Grove. The script of the screenplay is now held by the Slovak National Library in Martin, Slovakia.

Author Biography
Dusan Siroky (1932- ), born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, is a screenwriter. Stefan Martin Sokol (1927-2009), born in Zvolenská Slatina, Czechoslovakia, was a screenwriter.
Time
1880s-1930s
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