Karel Vachek
Birthday
1940/08/04
Day of death
2020/12/22 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Tišnov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Also know as
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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 fe...Read more
Acting
(2023) All Men Become Brothers
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(2000) Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
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(2019) Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
as Himself
(1996) What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government
as Self
(2009) Golden Sixties
as Self