A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also a biography of the last years of the life of the author of this design, Jan Kaplický, who wrote in his diary in 1998: to win the competition and have one love. With this entry, read by Eliška Kaplicky at the beginning of the film, it is as if the world-class Czech architect wrote not only the "script" for the final decade of his life, but also for a film that follows the dramatic social story of creative imagination and the intimate relationship between a man and a woman.
Jan Kaplický
as
Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová
as
Josef Kaplický
as
Václav Havel
as
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová
as
Václav Klaus
as
Pavel Bém
as
Milan Knížák
as
Pavel Bobek
as
Brian Clarke
as Himself