7.2 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Petr Václav Written by Petr Václav Country Czech Republic Director Petr Václav | 72% Csfd Produced by Mimesis Film Release date 2 April 2015 Initial release 2 April 2015 Cast Karel Roden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Karel Roden
Václav Luks
Collegium 1704 Similar We Are Never Alone, Madame Le Murie, The Way Out, Schmitke, Matrix AB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zpov zapomenut ho 2015 trailer
Zpověď zapomenutého is a 2015 documentary film by Petr Václav about the life of Czech-Italian composer Josef Mysliveček. When screened at the FIPA International Competition in Biarritz in 2016, it won the gold prize (FIPA d'or). It is also the winner of the 2016 Trilobit Award. The film is a part of the development of a more ambitious project: a biographical film based on Mysliveček's life, entitled Il Boemo, that is being produced in collaboration with American musicologist Daniel E. Freeman and Czech conductor Václav Luks, artistic director of the early music ensemble Collegium 1704.
Zpověď zapomenutého is narrated by Czech actor Karel Roden, who reads from personal letters and journal entries written by the composer.
According to Deník, "The film combines footage from Collegium 1704 rehearsals of Mysliveček's opera L'Olimpiade conducted by Luks in 2012 and 2013 at the Prague National Theatre, where the composer worked, and from various archives. Through letters, music, atmosphere and landscape, Václav reconstructs the life of a man who was a talented composer and an eternal wanderer with no background but also a lover of women and emoluments, which ultimately was his fatal undoing. Mysliveček's life journey and imaginary feelings, suggestively rendered by Karel Roden's pensive speech, illustrate the film's subject."
Moreover, Zpověď zapomenutého "captures the emergence of opera."