At the festive “obscured” introduction, at which actress Iva Janžurová and long-distance actor Milan Lasica received the Kristián Award for Lifetime Achievement, the festival’s president Fero Fenič expressed the hope that, despite the coronavirus measures, the festival will proceed according to plan.
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And then the audience immersed themselves in Gott’s memories and songs in Olga Malířová’s two-hour documentary Špátová Karel. She filmed it at the request of the Gott couple, and thanks to that she got to where no one before her was.
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At the end of his life, the singer apparently wanted to leave his listeners and fans with a sincere and intimate confession. The film is expected to hit theaters on October 15.
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The film is touching from the essence of the fact that Špátová and Gott filmed the last year of his life and he knew that the days filled with his love and success were coming to an end. And so he showed behind the scenes of his career and concerts, but above all he recapitulated his personal life and allowed future viewers to look into the privacy of his family with an emphasis on a loving relationship with his wife and children.
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Last Christmas with family
Photo: Karel Gott Agency
“My daughters are playing with my grandchildren,” he comments humorously on a visit to Lucia’s family. It is his relationship with his wife and daughters Charlotte and Nella that is emotionally strongest in the film, partly because the children also knew …
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Gott invited Špátová to his house, to the cottage and to his native village, visited by old co-workers and friends. With Jiří Suchý, they remembered Semafor, with Ladislav Štaidl for the years spent together, and with the few with Jiří Štaidl, who was closest to Gott.
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Karel Gott with his wife Ivana in the film Karel
Photo: Karel Gott Agency
“When the concert ended and we went to the pub, it was far from over for him. He didn’t leave until he signed the last fan, “said Staidl, revealing one of the stones on which Gott’s immense popularity stood. People loved him because he respected them and never wanted to disappoint them.
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“I imagine she’ll buy a concert ticket, she looks forward to getting an autograph, and if I left earlier, I think she would be disappointed,” Gott adds with a sincere smile.
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He also let the filmmaker into the hospital for rehearsals and the shooting of the last hit, The Heart Will Not Go Out, and he did not avoid what some had and perhaps still think of him: Fifty years of success and still only Antichart! ”He was upset once during the filming.
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“We didn’t know we were signing something called Anticharta,” he hit the nail on the head after allowing himself to use a shot from his performance at the Music Theater at the time.
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Špátová obviously had countless archive footage from his life at her disposal, including those hitherto unknown. And so the audience goes back to the years of his youth, sometimes wild parties, and in the film he gets to know his friends and co-workers in the heyday, about which Gott sang with urgency, “I would like to be still young.”
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Bushido feat Karel Gott – Forever Young
The director took full advantage of the opportunity that the Gotts offered her, and together with the editor Šárka Sklenářová, they compiled a picture of a man from the archives and from a live shoot, about which the lucky ones will say for a long time: We lived in Karel Gott’s time.
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