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Karel Vachek
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Film & TV
Tišnov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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).…
Known for
- All Men Become Brothers2023
- Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy — Self2019
- Golden Sixties — Self2009
- Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)2000
- What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government — Self1996
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Field of work
- documentary film
- Official website
- www.karelvachek.cz
- Image
- Karel Vachek.jpg
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- Commons category
- Karel Vachek
- date of birth
- 1940-08-04
- date of death
- 2020-12-21
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