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 Skácels work Instead they interpret him through their own series of images