Karel Engel Movies

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...

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

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...

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

Zdeněk Zaoral began filming this film in semi-amateur conditions, but it was eventually completed in a Zlín studio and released in...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learns when, in the immediate post-war period, he...

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

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler...

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

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