''Zpověď zapomenutého'' is a 2015 documentary film by

Petr Václav Petr Václav (born 11 June 1967) is a Czech film director and screenwriter whose films have received many awards, both in the Czech Republic and internationally. He has lived in Paris since 2003 and holds both French and Czech citizenship. Life ...

about the life of Czech-Italian composer

Josef Mysliveček Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant com ...

. When screened at the FIPA International Competition in

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in 2016, the film won the gold prize (

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). It is also the winner of the 2016 Trilobit Award.Anon.
"Oceněny byly filmy Schmitke a Zpověď zapomenutého"
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'', January 16, 2016. A biographical film based on the life of Mysliveček with the title ''Il Boemo'' was also developed, in collaboration with the Czech conductor

Václav Luks Václav Luks (born 14 November 1970) is a Czech harpsichordist, French horn, horn player, Conducting, conductor, musicology, musicologist and pedagogy, pedagogue, founder and artistic director of the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and of ...

, artistic director of the

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ensemble Collegium 1704, and released in 2022.Mimesis Film announcement
December 6, 2016. ''Zpověď zapomenutého'' is narrated by Czech actor

Karel Roden Karel Roden (born 18 May 1962) is a Czech actor, popularly known for his roles in ''Hellboy'' and '' The Bourne Supremacy'', and his voice work in ''Grand Theft Auto IV''. Life and career Roden followed his father and grandfather into acting. ...

, who reads from personal letters and journal entries written by the composer.Podskalská, J.
"Génius tvorby a mizérie i neřesti Josefa Myslivečka"
''

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'', April 4, 2015. According to

, "The film combines footage from Collegium 1704 rehearsals of Mysliveček's opera ''L'Olimpiade'' conducted by Luks in 2012 and 2013 at the

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, where the composer worked, and from various archives.Anon.
"Collegium 1704 zpovídá Myslivečka"

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, March 31, 2015. Through letters, music, atmosphere and landscape, Václav reconstructs the life of a man who was a talented composer and an eternal wanderer with no background but also a lover of women and

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, which ultimately was his fatal undoing. Mysliveček's life journey and imaginary feelings, suggestively rendered by Karel Roden's pensive speech, illustrate the film's subject." Moreover, ''Zpověď zapomenutého'' "captures the emergence of opera." ČSFD
''Zpověď zapomenutého''

References

External links

''Confession of the Vanished''
(complete film, with English subtitles) on the official YouTube channel of the distribution compan
Pilot Film
* Petrželková, H.
"Můj film si hraje s ohněm, říká Petr Václav o své novince s Rodenem a Vlasákovou"
("My film is playing with fire," says Petr Václav of his new documentary featuring Roden and Vlasáková), ''

'', February 26, 2016. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zpoved zapomenuteho (Confession of the Vanished) Documentary films about classical music and musicians Films about composers Czech documentary films 2015 documentary films 2015 films