The genius who made Bohemia sing—and the film that almost forgot to show up.
A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.
Score
Obviously the actual Dvořák compositions slap.
Production
Low-budget 1990 Czech filmmaking: charming or cursed?
Director
Jaromil Jireš
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jaromil Jireš was a Czech New Wave legend who made The Cremator—this was his late-career pivot to composer docs.
Released during Czechoslovakia's final year, this captures a nation anxiously preserving its cultural heroes before dissolution.
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