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.
Olga Špátová
Director
Jan Kaplický

Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová
Josef Kaplický

Václav Havel

Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

Václav Klaus

Pavel Bém
Milan Knížák

Pavel Bobek
Cameraperson67%
Audrey71%
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired63%
Frida68%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Directed by John Ford70%
Orwell: 2+2=571%
Finders Keepers65%
The Class of ‘9271%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
The Age of Stupid65%
Maidentrip70%
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology73%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
McQueen74%
180° South72%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing70%