Dan Krameš (b. 1962, Prague), independent director and producer, initially concentrated on film adaptations of literary works, including the Kafkaesque The Wardrobe (1988) based on the story by Thomas Mann (the Bronze Amphora at the Montecatini IFF). In 1993 he founded ALPHA PLUS PRO, which produces films, documentaries, and commercial shorts (over 80 short- and medium-length and 11 feature-length works). In 1994 he made the documentary Magical Prague, a unique envisioning of the city as a woman over the course of a millennium. Thanks to his close association with the worlds of music and theatre (recordings of operas and stagings, film inserts), a superb constellation of actors came together for his feature debut Agatha (Agáta, 1999), based on three stories by Chekhov. Last year he completed two documentaries: a portrait of the Czech-Jewish composer Jan Klusák – Axis Temporum (2009); and Argippo Resurrected (2009) about the famous discovery of a lost Vivaldi opera.
Czech Republic