Best movies of Karel Kachyna

Actors : Gustav Opocenský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirina Bohdalová, Miroslav Holub,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Husband (senior ministry official) and wife find their house is riddled with listening devices put there by his own ministry. A harrowing night follows (reminiscent of 'Who's Afraid Of ...

Actors : Miroslava Safránková, Petr Svojtka, Libuse Safránková, Radovan Lukavský,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems ...

Actors : Karel Hermánek, Rudolf Hrusínský, Lubor Tokos, Jirí Krampol,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Iva Janzurová, Vladimír Ptácek, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

Actors : Miroslav Donutil, Jirina Bohdalová, Martin Huba, Jirina Jirásková,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Oligophrenic Fany (Bohdalová) lives with her aunt who suddenly manages to travel abroad. Fany has to move to her sister (Jirásková). Two very different women, one mentally disabled and the ...

Actors : Zdena Hadrbolcová, Lubos Vraspír, Vladimír Dlouhý, Bozena Böhmová,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

A boy keeps his spiritedness and optimism in spite of polio.

Actors : Jirí Ornest, Lada Jelínková, Tatána Fischerová, Miro Noga,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

A drama focusing on the age-old conflict between faith, family and love in which every is hard. The lyric unfolds in Sub-Carpathian Ukraine in the 1930s. An enclave of Jews living there ...

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, Libuse Svormová, Ludovít Gresso, Blazena Holisová,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Actors : Josef Barta, Eduard Bredun, Frank Argus, Jirí Chmelar,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the ...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Tom Courtenay, Freddie Jones, Ingrid Held,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers ...

Actors : Valérie Zawadská, Antonín Molcík, Radek Holub, Alena Mihulová,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Adam is a young farmer. As a child, fleeing the bleak reality of his mother's life as a prostitute, he tumbled from a mountain and was mentally injured. Years later, his mother is dying, so...

Actors : Michal Dlouhý, Eduard Cupák, Lukás Vaculík, Vladimír Mensík,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children ...

Actors : Zuzana Bydzovská, Edita Dindelová, Jaroslava Brousková, Jan Cmíral,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Marian Kleis, Marie Brozová, Brigita Hausnerová,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

After the death of her parents Pavlínka is borough up by her grandmother Barbora. They both live in a poor mountain region that has just one textile factory, in Svárov. Its owner Baron ...

Actors : Radka Dulíková, Václav Lohniský, Helena Kruzíková, Vít Olmer,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

After school, thirteen-year old Jitka likes to wander alone through Prague. The brisk girl also likes to sneak around the backyards surrounding the block of flats where she lives. One day, ...

Actors : Jirí Bartoska, Michal Hofbauer, Monika Hálová, Dita Kaplanová,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Twelve-year-old Alena (Dita Kaplanová) has had to leave the countryside on a blazing hot summer day and come back home to a block of flats on the outskirts of Prague. She spends most of the...

Actors : Magdalena Holendrová, Pavel Jiras, Lena Birková, Michal Dlouhý,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin ...

Actors : Jana Brejchová, Josef Kemr, Mnislav Hofman, Gustáv Valach,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. The cooperative's chairman, Picin, publicly calls ...

Actors : Milena Dvorská, Frantisek Velecký, Jaroslava Schallerová, Oldrich Kaiser,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she...

Actors : Michal Koblic, Vladimír Hlavatý, Marienka Magdolenova, Gustáv Valach,
Directors : Karel Kachyna,

A young Czech boy is freed from a concentration camp and ends up working for the army against the Germans.