Karel Engel Movies

Student Slávka Čermáková has to take her final exams on a make-up date. Her naively admiring relationship with a reckless...

Despite the initial mistrust of others, former glass worker Štěoán Urban becomes the founder and first chairman of the local...

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income....

Even the best of friends can fall apart, often all it takes is a minor misunderstanding. That's exactly what happened to two village friends,...

This naively filmed adventure story draws from Robert L. Stvenson's novel, but adapts it to its own devices. It tells the story of a young Czech who...

Zdeněk Zaoral began filming this film in semi-amateur conditions, but it was eventually completed in a Zlín studio and released in...

The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation...

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the...

Four short stories depicting the private life of Czechoslovak soldiers. In the short story "The Pheasant", the hardened corporal Kony takes revenge...

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.

Young couple Hynek and Pavla are on the verge of divorce, largely due to Hynek’s meddling mother. When Pavla’s father unexpectedly...

March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to think about the future after the war and to cover...

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of...

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral...

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

An image and music collage - a cinema concert - guided by a young sound engineer David, for whom the exhibition on E. F. Burian is an incentive to...

A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters...