Petr Hapka (2002)
• January 1st, 2002 • 0h 0min
Documentary
Overview
In this 1999 documentary, which took three years to shoot, director Jan Mudra reveals Hapka's obsession with creativity, his incredible energy, and his abundance of ideas. He recalls his family background, his studies at the acting conservatory, and his first roles in Czech films. Petr Hapka began his career as a composer in the 1960s. Even then, he began writing for Hana Hegerová, with whom, as he says, he entered into a musical marriage that continues to this day. In the film, his three main lyricists—Petr Rada, Zdeněk Rytíř, and Michal Horáček—recall their work with Hapka. Many viewers may be surprised to learn that Petr Hapka also composed the music for three famous plays by the Divadlo Za branou theater: Provaz o jednom konci (A Rope with One End), Zelený papoušek (The Green Parrot), and Hodina lásky (The Hour of Love), as recalled in the film by director Otomar Krejča. He also composed the music for several films.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Released on: 2017-04-29
Documentary, History
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
Utan tvivel är man inte klok
Released on: 1995-10-13
Documentary
A Documentary about the Swedish Comedian Tage Danielsson. He was one member of the "Hasse & Tage" d...
Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life
Released on: 2022-11-25
Documentary
Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, k...
Doris Day: It's Magic
Released on: 1998-10-18
Documentary, History
When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her p...
Reclaiming Amy
Released on: 2021-07-23
Documentary, Music, TV Movie
To mark the ten year anniversary of her death, Amy Winehouse's closest family and friends reveal the...
Cool Water
Released on: 1991-01-17
Documentary
21-year-old Keith Blauschild, formally trained in the culinary arts, is also a self-taught ice carve...
Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?
Released on: 2021-06-11
Documentary, Music, Drama
1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on t...
David Hurn: A Life in Pictures
Released on: 2017-11-04
Documentary
Documentary celebrating the life and career of world-renowned Magnum photographer David Hurn, possib...
Conor McGregor: Notorious
Released on: 2017-11-03
Documentary
Conor McGregor is the biggest star in the history of Mixed Martial Arts. Filmed over the course of 4...
Becoming Black
Released on: 2019-10-09
Documentary
In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: filmbiografía de Antonio Maenza
Released on: 2012-06-19
Documentary
Ludwig van
Released on: 1970-06-01
Documentary
An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through t...
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
Released on: 1986-03-09
TV Movie, Documentary
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scen...
Mine Wars
Released on: 2016-01-12
Documentary, History
Efforts of the United Mine Workers, led by Mother Jones, to organize coal miners in southern West Vi...
Jim Morrison: The End
Released on: 2021-07-02
Documentary, History, Music, TV Movie
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
Released on: 2017-08-26
Documentary
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizi...
Seve
Released on: 2014-06-27
Drama, Documentary
Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought...