Otevřený kruh ( 1973 )

Overview

The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyně (1834 - 1868) and his struggle for the possibility of creative expression. After studying in Paris, he returns to Prague. He is not recognized, has no success and actually lives on the support of his father, the famous physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně. The only understanding he finds is in his admirer Maria, whom he marries. But he loses her too due to his emotional involvement with another woman. He dies too young and leaves behind a work whose artistic value will only be appreciated much later, at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Top Cast

Luděk Munzar

Hana Maciuchová

Karel Höger

Josef Vinklář

Miriam Hynková

Karolina Slunéčková

Jana Hlaváčová

Zdeněk Buchvaldek

Vladimír Ráž

Jaromír Spal

Josef Mixa

Josef Bláha

Josef Hlinomaz

Viktor Maurer

Jana Drbohlavová

Karel Vlček

Daniela Kolářová

Jan Faltýnek

Marta Skarlandtová

Jiří Helekal

Jan J. Vágner

Eva Lorenzová

Lída Plachá

Ludmila Engelová

Jiří Suk

Marta Richterová

Šárka Jerieová