Kapr Code is a documentary opera featuring the contradictory life of progressive composer and prominent communist Jan Kapr (1914-88), a Stalin award laureate, who was 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.

Dir. Lucie Kralova - 91min - 2022 - Czech Republic, Slovakia

"images from the past are imbued with a vitality that’s achieved through strikingly impressionistic editing....By stepping away from the genre conventions of biography, Králová’s inventive film imagines an alternative way to translate the artist’s legacy to screen" - Guardian

"In this masterful orchestration of music and images, Lucie Králová reaffirms the importance of creation as a political act." - Visions du Reel

“This film gives joy through its original and sophisticated form. In a perfect symphony of all the components of its cinematic language, it tells a story of a forgotten and ambiguous character of Czech history.” - **Winner*, Best Czech Doc, Ji.hlava.

"captivating in its form and content. Lucie Králová’s work always reflects her joyous creativity” - Modern Times Review