Bata Shoes - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The 1968 Czech film All My Compatriots by Vojtěch Jasný, in a scene set in 1948, refers to Baťa putting small shoemakers out of business.
  • In Susan Elderkin's 2000 novel Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains one of the three narrative voices is Eva, a worker in a Bata factory in Partizánske, Slovakia.

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