Karel Slach Trailers
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy TrailerObscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley TrailerHeart Above the Castle Trailer
Most Popular Karel Slach Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
Artists Trailer (1965)
01 January 1965
Documentary portrait of the life of circus artists during their winter break.
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley Trailer (2011)
02 October 2011
Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion.
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Trailer (2003)
05 June 2003
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 others subversives who stand in battle, heroically and sometimes tragically, against majority opinion, established rules, or powerful institutions.
Learning Trailer (1965)
01 January 1965
Documentary film about apprentice youth about to enter real life.
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood Trailer (1992)
06 April 1992
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 inimitable point of view.
What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government Trailer (1996)
29 August 1996
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.
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy Trailer (2019)
05 November 2019
The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective.
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) Trailer (2000)
16 December 2000
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 observations about his own funeral.
Heart Above the Castle Trailer (2008)
12 November 2008
A neon heart installed above Prague Castle illuminated the city for the last three months of Václav Havel’s presidency in an artist’s tribute to his extraordinary service.
