Kapr Code is 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.
"The documentary-opera Kapr Code is captivating in its form and content. Lucie Králová's work always reflects her joyous creativity, but this time she surprises us by introducing a new playful way of storytelling. Humour runs throughout her film, which lightens up the mood of what actually is a tragic story of a silenced artist." —Margareta Hruza, Modern Times Review
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Distributor subjects
Music; Opera; Art; History; Communism; Film Studies; Slavic Studies; Czechoslovakia