Karel Vachek Trailers
All Men Become Brothers TrailerCommunism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy TrailerBohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) Trailer
Most Popular Karel Vachek Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
Moravian Hellas Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
Karel Vachek’s graduate film offers us a documentary essay which is both a light-hearted and aggressive little piece and also a parody of investigative film journalism.
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.
Points for the President aka Attempt at Contrarevolution Trailer (2021)
28 October 2021
In his provocative mosaic of opinions from different sides of the political spectrum, Martin Kohout reflects on where the ideals of November 1989 and the former sense of community have disappeared to.
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.
Malíř Kamil Lhoták Trailer (1960)
01 January 1960
A poetic documentary portrait about czechoslovakian painter.
Všichni mají pravdu? Karel Floss a ti druzí Trailer (2016)
24 November 2016
A multi-portrait of the history of post-1989 Czech ideas and sensibilities, centered around left-wing Christian philosopher Karel Floss.
Suffering Trailer (1962)
16 February 1962
This is an engaging drama by director Karel Kachyna about the growing pains of a young teen (Jorga Kotrbova) and the hardships of a noble steed mistreated by a cruel neighboring farmer.
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.
Elective Affinities Trailer (1968)
08 November 1968
Documentary showing the Czechoslovakian political landscape in March 1968, when president Antonin Novotny, a hardline Stalinist, stepped down and moderate communist Ludvik Svoboda was elected.
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) Trailer (2006)
02 November 2006
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.
Experience of an Exorcist Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
The film is a monolog in which Catholic priest Vojtěch Kodet recounts his experiences with souls in the clutches of evil forces.
All Men Become Brothers Trailer (2023)
21 September 2023
A film about the phenomenon of Alexander Dubček, a Czechoslovak politician, one of the most prominent personalities of the Prague Spring of 1968, author of the concept of “socialism with a human face”.
