Karel Engel Movies

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

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...

It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes...

A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.

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

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in...

Children's film about a young boy who moves from the city to the country. At first he finds it difficult to make friends, until others discovers his...

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

Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the...

A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a...

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

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

A film about a young sanitation worker who tries to prevent the pollution of a river, but pays the price...

The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is...

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...

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

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....

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

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.