KUMU DOC : PÖFF

Eye Over Prague

Local title
Eye Over Prague
Title in Russian
Eye Over Prague
Director
Olga Špátová
Country
Czechia
Year
2010
Programme
Kumu Documentary
Subject
architecture

The powerful story of Jan Kaplicky, one of the most gifted architects of his generation. He fled Prague along with many of his cultural contemporaries during the social unrest of 1968 in Czechoslovakia. Almost forty years later, he won an international architectural contest, returned to his home town of Prague, but faced the biggest challenge of his career: an unrealised architectural achievement, the new National Library in Prague. It meant the world to him.

Introduction by Peeter Pere

Director
Olga Špátová
Runtime
Language
Czech
Subtitles
English