Karel Vachek
Directing
Born: 1940-08-04 · Tišnov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Died: 2020-12-22
Biography
A controversial filmmaker - a documentary filmmaker of a philosophical nature, whose films have either supporters or opponents. From 1958 to 1963, he studied at the Prague FAMU. Already during his studies, he became famous for his filmmaking complexity, high erudition and philosophical-sociological depth of his films, which also led to distaste among some teachers (the school film Kamil Lhoták). He graduated from school with the film Moravian Hellas. It was a polemical reportage from the folk fe
🎬 Movies (17)
All Men Become Brothers
2023
Points for the President aka Attempt at Contrarevolution
2021
Dramaturgy
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2019
Director
Všichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí
2016
Dramaturgy
Experience of an Exorcist
2011
Dramaturgy
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
2011
Director
Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday or the Establishment and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
2006
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Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
2003
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Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000
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What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996
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New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992
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New flat
1977
Screenplay
Elective Affinities
1968
Director
Floods
1966
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Moravian Hellas
1964
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Suffering
1962
Assistant Director
Malíř Kamil Lhoták
1960
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