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.
Directed byOlga Malířová
Simply CinemaFeaturing
Jan Kaplický

Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová
Josef Kaplický

Václav Havel

Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová

Václav Klaus

Pavel Bém
Milan Knížák

Pavel Bobek
Brian Clarke
Himself


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