Karel Engel Movies

In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.

Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...

Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.

The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears...

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his...

Biography of Karel Čapek.

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return...

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

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...

Milda, a 13-year-old boy, loves to read adventure novels and imagines himself as a musketeer. He spends his summer vacation with his parents in a...

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can...

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

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

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

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