Karel Engel Movies

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

A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his colleagues drive through the centre of...

This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a film about the history of glassmaking. He is...

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

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

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

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...

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.

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...

At the end of August, a young woman is chased by an angry mob of hooligans under the windows of a bus because she decides to tear down a poster...

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

In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway...

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....

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

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

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

Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.

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...

In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement of the audience, is found to be the heir to a...

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...