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Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum

Documentary Films - Out of Competition 2009 / Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum / Czech Republic 2009

This black-and-white documentary captures composer Jan Klusák in the axis of time (axis temporum) between his 70th and 75th year, presenting a life filled with incomparable vitality, charm, and wit. Everything is permeated with his music – music as a lifestyle.

Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum

Synopsis

This black-and-white documentary captures composer Jan Klusák in the axis of time (axis temporum) between his 70th and 75th year with incomparable vitality, charm, and wit. Klusák composes a pivotal composition of this period and follows its genesis into a performance by Petr Altrichter. He allows us a glimpse of his childhood, which comes alive through photographs of his beloved father who perished in Auschwitz. And he freshly characterizes his various happy and difficult periods. Everything is permeated with his music – music as a life attitude.

About the film

57 min / Black & white, DIGIBETA
World premiere

Director Dan Krameš / Screenplay Dan Krameš / Dir. of Photography Dan Krameš / Music Jan Klusák / Editor Dan Krameš / Producer Dan Krameš / Production Alpha Plus Pro / Contact Alpha Plus Pro

About the director

Dan Krameš

Dan Krameš (b. 1962, Prague), independent director and producer, initially concentrated on film adaptations of literary works, including the Kafkaesque The Wardrobe (1988) based on the story by Thomas Mann (Bronze Amphora at the Montecatini IFF). At the beginning of the 1990s he founded ALPHA PLUS PRO, which produces films, documentaries, and commercial programs (over 80 short- and medium-length and 11 feature-length works). In 1994 he shot the documentary Magic Prague, a unique parable of the city as a woman over the course of the millennium. Thanks to his close association with the worlds of music and theater (recordings of operas and stagings, film inserts), a superb constellation of actors came together for his feature debut Agatha (Agáta 1999), based on a Chekhov story. This year he finished the documentaries Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum (2009) and Argippo Reborn (2009), about the famous discovery of a lost Vivaldi opera.

Contacts

Alpha Plus Pro
V rovinách 863/20, 140 00, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 608 964 529
Fax: +420 224 813 057
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Dan Krameš
Film Director

Jan Klusák
Music Composer

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