Kapr Code

World premiere: Visions du Réel 2022 / Burning Lights Competition

KAPR CODE is a documentary opera about the contradictory life of Czech contemporary composer and prominent communist Jan Kapr (1914-1988), a Stalin Award laureate who was later erased from public memory in socialist Czechoslovakia because of his artistic freedom. Director Lucia Králová starts a philharmonic dialogue with Kapr, by mixing newly composed opera songs (written by Jiří Adámek) with Kapr’s never-before-shown private archive, revealing his humour, inner struggles and desire to leave a mark.

Czech Republic / Slovakia, 2022, 91'