PT Journal AU Klimes, I TI Nezval's The Bartered Bride SO Iluminace PY 2013 BP 39 EP 62 VL 25 IS 1 WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201301-0004.php DE opera; unrealised scripts; silent film; Vitezslav Nezval SN 0862397X AB The text is a contribution to the issue of "silent" film opera and traces the process of adaptation and production history of the unrealised film version of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, which was converted into a film script in 1941 by Vitezslav Nezval. The production history of the project presents the contemporary debate inside the film industry about the possibilities of adaptation and the topic of national production in the context of the Protectorate film. ER