Movies: Karel Vachek
- 1996
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government (1996)
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Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comp...
- 2023
All Men Become Brothers (2023)
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A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”....
- 1962
Suffering (1962)
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This is an engaging drama by director Karel Kachyna about the growing pains of a young teen (Jorga Kotrbova) and the hardships of a noble steed mistreated by a cruel neighboring farmer. The teen is having a hard time figuring out adult modes of behav...
- 2011
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley (2011)
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Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything t...
- 2021
Points for the President aka Attempt at Contrarevolution (2021)
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In his provocative mosaic of opinions from different sides of the political spectrum, Martin Kohout reflects on where the ideals of November 1989 and the former sense of community have disappeared to. He tries to understand the progressive fragmentat...
- 2000
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)
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A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observati...
- 2019
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy (2019)
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The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The collage of personal memories, staged scenes and archives of collective memory compares the Prague Spring to t...
- 1992
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)
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From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director’s inimi...
- 2003
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (2003)
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In the fourth and final instalment of Karel Vachek’s not-so-little Little Capitalist Tetralogy, preparations for an opera performance in the Czech capital’s art-nouveau National Theatre become the occasion for a reflection on rebels, dissidents, and ...
- 1968
Elective Affinities (1968)
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Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected. Five months later, in August 68, the Prague Spring would ...
- 1964
Moravian Hellas (1964)
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Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism. The Strážnice folk festival, backed by the cultural Party apparatus of the time, ...
- 2016
Všichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí (2016)
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- 1960
Malíř Kamil Lhoták (1960)
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A poetic documentary portrait about czechoslovakian painter....
- 1966
Stoletá voda (1966)
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Documentary about dam rupture....
- 1977
Nový byt (1977)
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- 2006
Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho Prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918 - 1992) (2006)
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A dog's funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a motorbike show. Its common denominator is the commercial interest of sponsors and big business, the ambival...
- 2011
Experience of an Exorcist (2011)
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The film is a monolog in which Catholic priest Vojtěch Kodet recounts his experiences with souls in the clutches of evil forces. The film, which frequently quotes from the writings of Raul Salvucci, is based on a sermon focused exclusively on the tab...