- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 4, 1940
- Place of Birth
- Tišnov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
- Died
- December 22, 2020
Karel Vachek
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 1968 and won an award at the Karlovy Vary IFF. In 1968, he made the famous documentary Spřízněni volbou, an artistic documentation of the events surrounding the presidential election (awarded at the Oberhausen IFF in 1969). After that, Vachek was unable to film again. He worked as a screenwriter in…
Filmography
movieAll Men Become Brothers
2023
Points for the President aka Attempt at Contrarevolution
moviePoints for the President aka Attempt at Contrarevolution
2021 · Dramaturgy
movieCommunism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2019 · Self, Director, Screenplay
movieVšichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí
2016 · Dramaturgy
movieObscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
2011 · Director, Story, Writer
Experience of an Exorcist
movieExperience of an Exorcist
2011 · Dramaturgy
Golden Sixties
tvGolden 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)
movieZáviš, 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, Screenplay
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
movieWho Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
2003 · Director, Screenplay
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
movieBohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000 · , Screenplay, Director
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
movieWhat Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
1996 · Self, Screenplay, Director, Story, Title Designer
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
movieNew Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992 · Director, Screenplay, Story
New flat
movieNew flat
1977 · Screenplay, Story
movieElective Affinities
1968 · Screenplay, Story, Director
Floods
movieFloods
1966 · Director, Screenplay, Story
movieMoravian Hellas
1964 · Screenplay, Story, Director
movieSuffering
1962 · Assistant Director
Malíř Kamil Lhoták
movieMalíř Kamil Lhoták
1960 · Director, Screenplay, Story