Cast & creator
Karel Vachek
Best known for Golden Sixties, Moravian Hellas, Moravian Hellas
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 Krátký film Praha, but none of the scripts were realized. In 1979 he emigrated to the United States. After 1989 he returned and made 7 feature-length documentary novels that deal with a variety of topics. These films are distinguished not only by their exceptional length, but also by their deep thoughtfulness and philosophical nature. From 1994 until his death he taught and also headed the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU.
40
film credits
1
television credits
5
1960–2023 · acting roles
7.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (41)
Showing 41 of 41 credits
Golden Sixties
Self
2009
Moravian Hellas
Screenplay
1964Moravian Hellas
Story
1964Moravian Hellas
Director
1964Floods
Director
1966Floods
Screenplay
1966Floods
Story
1966New flat
Screenplay
1977New flat
Story
1977
Elective Affinities
Screenplay
1968Elective Affinities
Story
1968Elective Affinities
Director
1968
All Men Become Brothers
2023
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
Self
2019Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
Director
2019Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
Screenplay
2019
Is Everyone Right? Karel Floss and the Others
Dramaturgy
2016
Suffering
Assistant Director
1962New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Director
1992New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Screenplay
1992New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Story
1992
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Director
2011Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Story
2011Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Writer
2011What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Self
1996What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Screenplay
1996What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Director
1996What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Story
1996What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
Title Designer
1996Malíř Kamil Lhoták
Director
1960Malíř Kamil Lhoták
Screenplay
1960Malíř Kamil Lhoták
Story
1960Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
2000Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Screenplay
2000Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
Director
2000Experience of an Exorcist
Dramaturgy
2011Points for the President aka Attempt at Contrarevolution
Dramaturgy
2021Záviš, 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)
Director
2006Záviš, 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)
Screenplay
2006Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Director
2003Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Screenplay
2003