Karel Čapek: Apocrypha

The selections for this two-hour program include apocrypha with biblical themes: The ten righteous, Pseudo-Lot or about patriotism, Holy night, Martha and Maria, Lazarus, The five loaves, Benchanan, Crucifixion, Pilate's evening and Pilate's creed. Unlike most of his other short story books, which were written continuously over a shorter period of time, Čapek wrote the Apocrypha for almost two decades - from 1920 until his death. The original collection of five stories (The Apocrypha, 1932) gradually grew to twenty-nine (The Book of the Apocrypha, 1945). They are particularly illustrative of the development and transformation of Čapek's artistic method in the area of the so-called. short stories, counting, like the two cycles of short stories from one pocket and the other, on the diversity of the readership. Performers: Josef Somr, Viktor Preiss, Ladislav Hampl, Libuše Šafránková and Simona Stašová Directed by: Ales Vrzák