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Life in the Bugatti Step: The Czech Avant-Garde between the World Wars

The Czech racing driver Eliška Junková races from victory to victory in a Bugatti – and inspires the composer Jaroslav Ježek to write his “Bugatti Step”. It became a legendary hit and the sound of the "young savages" who decisively shaped Czech music history in the 1920s and 1930s: Erwin Schulhoff, Jaroslav Ježek, Alois Hába, Victor Ullmann, Vítězslava Kaprálová, the first Czech woman conductor, and Bohuslav Martinů are the names of the composers of the hour.

The one-hour documentary “Life in Bugatti Step: The Czech Avant-Garde between the World Wars” by Anne-Kathrin Peitz outlines the individual and artistic lives of the selected composers, bringing to life this fertile, colourful, joyful, playful and experimental era of music and art.

Facts

Prog. No.
4726
Music genre
Documentary
Length
56 mins
Director
Anne-Kathrin Peitz
Producers
EuroArts Music, Czech TV, MDR
Production year
2025
Format
4K/UHD