KAPR CODE

KAPR

By Lucie KRÁLOVÁ

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Documentary - Completed 2022

Traces of controversial composer Jan Kapr meet with memory of film in new opera songs featuring turbulent political, personal and creative transformation.

Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2022
Burning Lights
Krakow Film Festival 2022
Dok.fest Munchen 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA
    • Languages
    • CZECH
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Lucie KRÁLOVÁ
    • Producer(s)
    • Andrea SHAFFER (Mindset Pictures), Vít JANEČEK (VIRUSfilm), Zuzana PIUSSI (VIRUSfilm)
    • Synopsis
    • 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.