Karel Engel Movies

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...

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for...

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...

Energetic Dr. Alice Váňová becomes the pit doctor at Mír Mine and spearheads a silicosis prevention study requiring miners...

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...

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

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....

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

Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chemotex technician Dagmar...

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

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

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.

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

The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a...

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

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

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová...

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