Searching For Jan Skácel

A collage of influences, spoken sentences, deeds, traces, and appearances of the Brno poet and prose writer Jan Skácel. Contemporary cultural figures regard the author as a social and cultural phenomenon. The directors of this documentary, on the other hand, decided to treat Jan Skácel as a subject of literary and social history, whose role in the cluster of regime and cultural events is unwavering and often – nowadays – glorified or otherwise embellished. In the film, they attempt to distance themselves from the established ideas about Jan Skácel and, at the same time, from past interpretations of Jan Skácel’s work. Instead, they interpret him through their own series of images.

• Kateřina DudováScreenplay · Director
• Michael JiřinecScreenplay · Director
• Eva PospíšilováScreenplay · Story
• Diana Tuyet-Lan KosinováExecutive Producer
• Petr KoblovskýDirector of Photography
• Tomáš VtípilOriginal Music Composer
• Michal BöhmEditor

Release date

February 9, 2022

Status

Released

Original language

Czech

Runtime

52m

Genres

Documentary