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Karel Vachek

Film Director / Screenwriter / Poet | * 08/04/1940 († 80, 12/22/2020) | Tišnov (Czechoslovakia)
Karel Vachek (4 August 1940, Tišnov – 21 December 2020, Prague) was a Czech documentary film director and film pedagogue at FAMU. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Mystery | Comedies

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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 skept ...

Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley

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2011 | 3h 29min
Documentary, Mystery
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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 ...

Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)

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2000 | 4h 14min
Documentary
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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 ...

Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho Prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918 - 1992)

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2006 | 2h 27min
Documentary
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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 ...

Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

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2003 | 3h 40min
Documentary
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Movies with Karel Vachek as Actor(4)

2023 All Men Become Brothers
as himself2019 Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2000 Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
as himself1996 What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government

TV Shows/Series with Karel Vachek as Actor(1)

as himself2009 Golden Sixties

Movies with Karel Vachek as Crew(26)

Directing/Director2019 Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
Writing/Screenplay2019 Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
Crew/Dramaturgy2016 Všichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí
Crew/Dramaturgy2011 Experience of an Exorcist
Directing/Director2011 Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Writing/Story2011 Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Writing/Writer2011 Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Directing/Director2006 Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho Prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918 - 1992)
Writing/Screenplay2006 Záviš, kníže pornofolku pod vlivem Griffithovy Intolerance a Tatiho Prázdnin pana Hulota aneb Vznik a zánik Československa (1918 - 1992)
Directing/Director2003 Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Writing/Screenplay2003 Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Directing/Director2000 Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Writing/Screenplay2000 Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Art/Art Direction1996 What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Directing/Director1996 What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Writing/Story1996 What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Writing/Screenplay1996 What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Directing/Director1992 New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Writing/Writer1992 New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Directing/Director1968 Elective Affinities
Writing/Story1968 Elective Affinities
Writing/Screenplay1968 Elective Affinities
Directing/Director1964 Moravian Hellas
Writing/Story1964 Moravian Hellas
Writing/Screenplay1964 Moravian Hellas
Directing/Assistant Director1962 Suffering

Full Name: Karel Vachek
Citizenships: Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia (former country)
Born: Sunday, 08/04 1940 (August) in Tišnov (Czechoslovakia)
Died: Tuesday, 12/22 2020 (December) in Prague (aged: 80)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: Czech (CS)
Educated at: Academy of Performing Arts, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Karel Vachek frequently works together with these people:
Róbert Kirchhoff (6x, Crew)
Karel Slach (6x, Crew)
Renata Pařezová (6x, Crew)
Libor Sedláček (5x, Crew)
Jan Procházka (4x, Crew)
Helena Všetečková (4x, Crew)
Helena Papírníková Horáčková (4x, Crew)
Karel Kachyňa (3x, Crew)
Jan Rendl (3x, Crew)
Egon Bondy (2x, Actor)
Petr Brada (2x, Crew)
Čestmír Kopecký (1x, Crew)
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