Karel Engel Movies

A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters...

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

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

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

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...

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

Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.

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...

A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar...

The protagonist is the ordinary and still blameless Evžen Macík, who one day, while waiting for his lover Maria, witnesses a robbery of a...

A marquee stands on a sprawling Prague housing estate and is home to two young bricklayers, who have all sorts of life experiences waiting for them...

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

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 psychological story about dissatisfied individuals who despise the stereotypes of others, but create their own. Kazan, a vagabond through life, and...

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

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

In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this film, set in the interwar period, is a staunch...