Karel Vachek
Illustration — Karel Vachek Karel Vachek (4 August 1940, Tišnov – 21 December 2020, Prague) was a Czech documentary film director and film pedagogue at FAMU.
Karel Vachek
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- Born
- 1940 · Tišnov.
- Died
- 2020 · Prague.
- Nationality
- Czech Republic · Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- pedagogue · director · screenwriter · poet · painter · documentarian · university teacher
- Fields
- film · film direction · documentary film
- Education
- Academy of Performing Arts · Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Languages
- Czech
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Illustration — Karel Vachek Karel Vachek (4 August 1940, Tišnov – 21 December 2020, Prague) was a Czech documentary film director and film pedagogue at FAMU.
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• Moravian Hellas (1964) • Elective Affinities (1968) • New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992) • What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government (1996) • Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-house of the Heart. A Divine Comedy (2000) • Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (2002) • Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday or the Establition and Doom of Czechoslovakia 1918-1992 (2006) • Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valleys (2011) • Komunismus a síť aneb Konec zastupitelské demokracie (2020)
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Karel Vachek died at Prague.
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- 1.Zemřel pedagog, dokumentarista a režisér Karel Vachek. Bylo mu 80 let. iROZHLAS.
- 2.Zemřel režisér Karel Vachek, autor dokumentu Spřízněni volbou - Seznam Zprávy.
- 3.V 80 letech zemřel Karel Vachek, režisér dokumentu Spřízněni volbou. iDNES.cz. December 22, 2020.
- 4.Krekovič, Miloš. Zomrel filmár Karel Vachek, najinšpiratívnejší z českej novej vlny. Denník N. December 22, 2020.
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