Lucie Králová picked up the award for Best Czech Documentary at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival for “Kapr Code,” about composer Jan Kapr, who passed away in 1988.
After a severe injury put an end to his athletic ambitions, Kapr turned to music and politics: a loyal member of the Communist Party, he received the Stalin Prize in 1951. He returned it after the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, however, becoming persona non grata.
But it was never her intention to recount his life story, she tells Variety, at least not in a conventional way.
“I am really fed up with all these films about artists. I hate them,” she admits.
“My films are always about this search for a new form, for other ways to communicate meaning. Kapr was interested in finding a new language as well. In the 1960s, he was done with Soviet propaganda music. He started to chase all these innovative,...
After a severe injury put an end to his athletic ambitions, Kapr turned to music and politics: a loyal member of the Communist Party, he received the Stalin Prize in 1951. He returned it after the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, however, becoming persona non grata.
But it was never her intention to recount his life story, she tells Variety, at least not in a conventional way.
“I am really fed up with all these films about artists. I hate them,” she admits.
“My films are always about this search for a new form, for other ways to communicate meaning. Kapr was interested in finding a new language as well. In the 1960s, he was done with Soviet propaganda music. He started to chase all these innovative,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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