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Eye Over Prague

A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also a biography of the last years of the life of the author of this design, Jan Kaplický, who wrote in his diary in 1998: to win the competition and have one love. With this entry, read by Eliška Kaplicky at the beginning of the film, it is as if the world-class Czech architect wrote not only the "script" for the final decade of his life, but also for a film that follows the dramatic social story of creative imagination and the intimate relationship between a man and a woman.

Top Cast

  • Jan Kaplický

    Jan Kaplický

  • Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová

    Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová

  • Josef Kaplický

    Josef Kaplický

  • Václav Havel

    Václav Havel

  • Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

    Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

  • Václav Klaus

    Václav Klaus

  • Pavel Bém

    Pavel Bém

  • Milan Knížák

    Milan Knížák

  • Pavel Bobek

    Pavel Bobek

Overview

A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also a biography of the last years of the life of the author of this design, Jan Kaplický, who wrote in his diary in 1998: to win the competition and have one love. With this entry, read by Eliška Kaplicky at the beginning of the film, it is as if the world-class Czech architect wrote not only the "script" for the final decade of his life, but also for a film that follows the dramatic social story of creative imagination and the intimate relationship between a man and a woman.

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