Kapr Code / KaprKód – Mindsetpictures

STORY

How to turn the dissonance of life into the harmony of being?

Writer/Director: Lucie Králová
Director of Photography: Tomáš Stanek, Adam Ol’ha, Petr Příkaský, Jakub Halousek, Martin Řezníček
Editor: Adam Brothánek
Sound: Petr Šoupa, Michal Gábor
Sound mix and design: Richard Müller

Librettist: Jiří Adámek / Austerlitz
Music Composer: Petra Šuško
Performed by: Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno
Choirmaster: Petr Fiala
Story Editing by: Jan Gogola jr.
Musicology Researcher: Michaela Vyoralová

Producer: Mindset Pictures (Andrea Shaffer) & DOCUfilm Praha (Martin Řezníček)
Co-Producer: VIRUSfilm (Vít Janeček, Zuzana Piussi) & Czech Television (Helena Uldrichová)

Supported by: Czech Film Fund | South Moravian Film Fund | Slovak Film Fund

IMZ Avant Première pitch winner, work in progress ParisDoc Cinereél, participant of DOK.incubator

International sales: Lightdox

LIFE AS A COMPOSITION IN DOCUMENTARY OPERA

A new film by award-winning director Lucie Králová

Log line

KAPR CODE is a playful reconstruction of life after death; where the memory of film and Kapr’s music interacts with a story gaining mythological dimensions.

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.

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.

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Kapr Code

Jan Kapr's Code - Concert