Fugue on the Black Keys

Fugue on the Black Keys (1965)

Drama

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much about the concert as about himself, both as a lonely foreigner and as a human being in cosmos. Here and there he encounters some racist comments, but mostly he just feels the weight of social exclusion because of his otherness, especially when it comes to women. On the morning of the day for his concert the embassy informs him that his whole family has perished. He feels totally broken, although he thinks that everyone holds some pain inside. His piano teacher, a professor at the Academy, looks him up, and tells him that he heard what has happened. The professor advises him to communicate his feelings that evening by using his Bach.

Director: Drahomíra Vihanová
Writers: Drahomíra Vihanová, Bohumil Sobotka, Hayk Mardirossian.

Casts

	Julian Dìaz as Fati Farari
	Jiří Stivín as
	František Rauch as
	Ladislav Zajíc as
	Jiří Štíbr as
	Milan Jonáš as
	Antonín Novotný as
	Alena Bradáčová as
	Jaroslav Horký as
	Savas Christofi as
	S. N. Munyua as
	Mohi El Din Diab as
	Manuel Mora as
	Guanaratna Piaysiri as
	Růžena Dvorská as
	Karel Höger as Narrator (voice)

Crew