Kapr Code
The film by director and screenwriter Lucie Králové KaprKod discovers the forgotten Czech composer Jan Kapr. It tells the powerful and contradictory story of the progressive artist, experimenter and later banned prominent communist who was almost erased from official memory.
A Documentary Opera featuring the contradictory life of progressive composer and prominent communist Jan Kapr (1914–88), Stalin award laureate, later banned in socialist Czechoslovakia. While Kapr’s life escalates towards pivotal moments, we follow opera songs reflecting these crucial life junctures, those establishing an artist’s fate. The film explores the nature of memory, and narration, using Kapr’s personal, never before seen amateur films manifesting his humor, inner struggles and desire to leave traces for eternity. 17 opera singers from internationally renowned Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno sing scenes from Kapr’s life, including fragments of police reports, Kapr’s political accounts or love correspondence. Their choirmaster, Petr Fiala, is Kapr’s last living student.
Read moreJi.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
2022 – Lucie Králová (Czech Joy: Best Czech Documentary Film)
Czech Film Critics Awards
2022 – Lucie Králová (Best Documentary)
Krakow Film Festival
2022 – Lucie Králová (Best Music Documentary)
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