Karel Vachek
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday4 August 1940
Died22 December 2020 (age 80)
Place of birthTišnov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Known credits18
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 festivals in Strážnice. The film was personally banned by president Novotný. It was only permitted in …
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 · Self
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2019 · Screenplay
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2019 · Director
Is Everyone Right? Karel Floss and the Others
2016 · Dramaturgy
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
2011 · Director
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
2011 · Story
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
2011 · Writer
Experience of an Exorcist
2011 · Dramaturgy
Golden Sixties
2009 · Self
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 · 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 · Screenplay
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
2003 · Director
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
2003 · Screenplay
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000 · Screenplay
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000 · Director
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996 · Self
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996 · Screenplay
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996 · Director
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996 · Story
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996 · Title Designer
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992 · Director
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992 · Screenplay
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992 · Story
New flat
1977 · Story
New flat
1977 · Screenplay
Elective Affinities
1968 · Story
Elective Affinities
1968 · Screenplay
Elective Affinities
1968 · Director
Floods
1966 · Director
Floods
1966 · Screenplay
Floods
1966 · Story
Moravian Hellas
1964 · Story
Moravian Hellas
1964 · Screenplay
Moravian Hellas
1964 · Director
Suffering
1962 · Assistant Director
Malíř Kamil Lhoták
1960 · Director
Malíř Kamil Lhoták
1960 · Screenplay
Malíř Kamil Lhoták
1960 · Story
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