Karel Engel Movies

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

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

March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to think about the future after the war and to cover...

Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and...

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

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

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

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

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...

First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu, based on the works of...

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová,...

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

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....

Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.

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

Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she...

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

This naively filmed adventure story draws from Robert L. Stvenson's novel, but adapts it to its own devices. It tells the story of a young Czech who...

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...

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