Karel Smyczek (Director)
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Works
Škoda lásky
Release Date2013-12-29
Charactersd (Přirozený talent)
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Dobrá čtvrť
Release Date2005-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Episode Count22
Vote Count2
Lovec
Release Date2024-10-30
Charactersd šéf poľskej sekcie
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
To jsem z toho jelen
Release Date2001-05-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Dynastie Nováků
Release Date1982-10-23
Charactersd TV Director
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Třetí patro
Release Date1986-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Episode Count6
The White Dove
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.
Release Date1960-11-04
Charactersd Michal
Vote Count28
Angel 2
A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Urias find themselves in a small Czech town on the eve of the feast of St. Nicholas. And after a series of human and "divine" tests our heroes eventually find that the path to knowledge leads primarily through self discovery through the strength of friendship, love and forgiveness skills.
Release Date2016-12-01
Charactersd Saint Medard
Vote Count25
Ruffiano and Sweeteeth
Famed outlaw Lotrando sends his son to a strict Catholic boarding school to learn manners, but the boy becomes too polite to lead the band. When they inadvertently arrive in a sultanate where the princess Zubeida lies gravely ill and are mistaken for physicians, father and son must overcome their inexperience and imposture to heal her and save the realm.
Release Date1997-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count14
Why?
Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of football club Sparta from Prague, whose supporters were the pioneers of the football fan riots in Czechoslovakia, starting with hooligan actions already in the 1960s, like breaking the trains in which they travelled when they went on Sparta's away games. The film deals with one of such episodes
Release Date1987-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Reporter
Vote Count16
The Halftime of Happiness
Fifty-year-old Ondřej Bozděch delivers coal around Prague's Žižkov district and he loves it more than anything. He has spent his whole life here and knows all the cellars. He lives his ordinary life among the Žižkov tenement houses, enjoying the joys and sorrows of his teenage daughter Markéta and his restless son Ondra. His best friend is his driver Karel, a former mathematician who once had to leave his job at a research institute for political reasons. Although Karel is an engineer and a completely different person than the straightforward Ondrej, he has become almost a member of the Bozděch family over time. But times are changing. The old houses of Žižkov disappear one by one, Markéta has to get married and Karel is offered to return to his original profession. Ondřej has to stop and think about what kind of life he is living...
Release Date1985-02-01
Charactersd Hrdlička
Vote Count2
Pražákům, těm je hej
The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.
Release Date1991-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count1
Snowdrops and Aces
A quarter century after the release of the original film, this sequel brings us a drama about platonic love, life retrospective and memories. Former schoolmates meet again in the mountains and it turns out they have not changed much. Even though so many years have passed, we can still see the souls of boys and girls we know from the teenage comedy Snowdrops and Aces; kids who participated in that legendary skiing course. Its nostalgic humour gives the film a bitter-sweet touch. Thawing Out follows the lives of the main heroes during a period of great changes. How did they manage to escape the traps and what scars have they suffered? Where did they want to go, how far have they got and what is still in front of them?
Release Date1983-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Customer in the Cake Shop
Vote Count18
Svatá hříšnice
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries to put the godless on the road to salvation by hymns and sermons, and Ferdys Pistora hunts in the pockets of his fellow men and isn't even put off by the presence of an officer of the law. Ferdys sets off to burgle villa of the banker Rosenstok, but a fire breaks out in the house and Ferdys ends up saving the banker's two small children. For this he is celebrated as a hero and gets a place as an errand boy with the Rosenstoks. At home he is visited by representatives of the Salvation Army, Captain Kosterka and Terezka, with whom Ferdys instantly falls in love.
Release Date1970-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Charactersd
Zpívající pudřenka
A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction.
Release Date1960-01-21
Charactersd Jupka
Vote Count3
Landscape with Furniture
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.
Release Date1987-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Šourek
Vote Count2
Girls from a Porcelain Factory
The fifteen year old Maruska starts as a new staff in the porcelain warehouse. For the boss Svetla it is the last straw. She asked to extend her staff consisting of four girls and a retired lady by a man, not a child. The kind and ever fussy Svetla, battling in vain with overweight decides to leave her position and to take another one in the office. As soon as she finds out that the position will be taken by Arnost Jarolím, she insists on a hand over inventory.
Release Date1975-04-11
Charactersd Kubík
Vote Count4
Nemocný bílý slon
The fate of an unlucky director of a dismantled cultural house who temporarily believes in the meaningfulness of his actions, exposed to the pressure of many different difficulties.
Release Date1990-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count1
Zlé pondělí
Three nine-year-old boys caused their classmate to end up under the wheels of a truck. How do you confess to what happened? Adults don't have the time or for selfish reasons don't want to deal seriously with children's problems. Morality for children and parents.
Release Date1960-10-14
Charactersd Pavel Vítovec
Vote Count2
Pochodně
Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes are soaked with poisonous phosphorus. Young Josef Rezler also works in the sulphur factory and uses his earnings to feed his mother and little sisters. He throws his perpetually drunken father out of the house. The older worker Brož forces Josef to learn to read and write. A cholera epidemic breaks out in Prague and Josef is the only one of his family to survive the disease...
Release Date1961-03-10
Charactersd Frantík
Vote Count1
The Cage
She was once the wife of an important man, lived in a beautiful house in Hradčany, and was friends with the famous race car driver Eliška Junková. Today, however, she lives somewhere on the outskirts of Prague in a ground-floor apartment overlooking the courtyard and the street, alone and abandoned by practically everyone. Her husband died a long time ago, and her life now consists only of regular meetings with the postwoman, who brings her pension and her favorite motoring magazines, and regular help at the rectory and the local church. She occasionally cooks and bakes for Father Jan, and with her characteristic willingness, she also does his laundry and ironing. However, one of the last certainties in her life collapses unexpectedly quickly—Father Jan is transferred somewhere to Hradec Králové and is replaced by a young priest who is used to doing everything himself. At that moment, a smiling young man with dark glasses and a flower in his hand enters Květa Galová's life.
Release Date2019-05-19
Charactersd člen komise na DAMU
Vote Count12
Nechci nic slyšet
An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student theatre company that he is able to shake off the long-term shock...
Release Date1978-06-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Charactersd
Vote Count2
Sedm hladových
People can be addicted to things, like high-calorie food. But the struggle against overweight and overeating is often futile, so the unfortunates have no choice but to lose weight under the guidance of experts - and they don't mind that the conditions in the sanatorium in question are quite oppressive and humiliating. Although, with a lot of good will, one could detect some metaphorical elements, the bitter comedy, reveling in naive stylisation, ultimately wants to be nothing more than an entertaining piece of work.
Release Date1988-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count1
Pohádka o staré tramvaji
Frantík arrives in Prague for the holidays and discovers an abandoned tram named Terezka. With local children, he secretly paints and hides it to prevent scrapping, then organizes a scrap-metal collection to raise funds for its restoration.
Release Date1962-01-12
Charactersd kluk zvaný Chemik
On Zizka's Battle Waggon
Widowed yeoman Tuma and his household are on their way to help the town of Kourim, which is under attack by the papist troops. His son Ondra is secretly following his father. Miksík the castellan, who is responsible for Ondra, finds himself forced to set off after the boy. They are both captured by soldiers from Kutná Hora. Miksík sacrifices himself to give Ondra a chance to flee. On the way, Ondra runs into the orphan Sulík. The two boys become friends and begin to wander together.
Release Date1968-11-29
Charactersd Kuno - Spy
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.
Release Date2015-03-31
Charactersd Self
Vote Count8
Kouzelný kopec
Documentary about Barrandov studios.
Release Date2023-09-09
Charactersd Self
GENUS
Release Date1995-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Bylo nás pět
Young Petr (Adam Novak) and his four friends undergoes several adventures throughout this series--setting a field on fire, sneaking into a theater without paying and many more.
Release Date1995-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count7
Nejlepší Bakaláři
Release Date2012-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count30
The Correct Six
In a small village in the 50ies six friends (four boys and two girls) want to experience some adventures in the summer holidays. They arrange a bathtub for a float journey, perform a theatre play at the yearly village party and a lot more...
Release Date1993-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Místo nahoře
Release Date2004-04-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Draculův švagr
Release Date1996-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count1
Poste restante
Release Date2010-02-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
On the Comet
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.
Release Date1970-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count29
Housata
A sensitively told story about the first hopes of love and harsh disappointments, about tender and impenetrable girls, but also about those who are characterized by ruthlessness, takes place at a girls' boarding school...
Release Date1980-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Svítalo celou noc
The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is dedicated to all those who fought and gave their lives in Prague in the May Uprising of 1945. Behind the historical events, the creators see mainly their simple, unassuming participants. Thus, we are presented with a number of apt portraits, whether it is the central hero Dr. Soukup and nurse Daniela on the side of the fighting Czechs, or a captain and a simple private in a Red Army unit coming to the aid of the fighting Prague, or an old, war-weary German major, who only realises the senselessness of the war at the sight of a fanatical, cynical lieutenant for whom Nazi ideology represents the meaning of life.
Release Date1980-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
The Cat Prince
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his cat Líza with him. A fully loaded truck moves through the country which is in spring blossoms, gradually changing into a snow-covered land. Children's imagination creates from real experiences magic stories - a fairy-tale grandpa takes them to a new castle, the children fear a black-horse rider who - as the grandpa and the cleaning lady assert she hates cats.
Release Date1979-09-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count4
Like Rabbits
A story of two boys who during the summer at a recreation area become best friends despite being enemies at first.
Release Date1982-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Dva, t. č. v zel. hl. dvě veselé nekuř.
Release Date1986-05-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Squandered Sunday
A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the protagonist. It is sunday, and saturday left just a hangover. Days go by, nothing changes. A metaphor for the political situation in the Czech lands at a time where depicting a soldier as a drunk was considered out of place to say the least.
Release Date1990-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count8
Pánská jízda
Release Date1983-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Šperk
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Bumerang
Release Date1987-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Just Whistle a Little
Several big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalizing a valuable organ, casting light on the hypocrisy of the adult world.
Release Date1981-04-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Romeo, Julie a tma
The new television adaptation of Jan Otčenášek's famous novella of the same name tells the story of the love between a teenage boy and a Jewish girl in the midst of war during the Heydrich terror. Ester seeks refuge, which Vojta provides her with, knowing the risk to his life. From this moment on, the situation of the protagonists of the story becomes a kind of existential island where fundamental human values—love, death, loyalty, and betrayal—are tested. This experience marks the main character of the story for life. This intimate drama, directed by Karel Smyczek with remarkable artistic means, is effective in its urgency and has timeless validity. The screenplay is the work of experienced author Petr Zikmund.
Release Date1998-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Záhada zlatého servisu
Release Date1989-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Emma in the Sky
An unconventional portrait of Emma Srncová, a painter, artist and occasional actress.
Release Date2023-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Kocourkov
Release Date1992-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Docent
Release Date2023-02-05
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
The Immortal Woman
The filmed fairy-tale is a comedy based on the classical story about Reason and Happiness. This enchanting couple is ever debating on which of the two is more important for mankind, their encounters are watched by the third fairy-tale figure aunt Envy. A story of true love that wins over the evil powers of immortal human envy.
Release Date1993-11-25
Vote Count11
The Great Movie Robbery
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.
Release Date1987-01-01
Vote Count4
Bulldogs and Cherries
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.
Release Date1981-09-11
Vote Count5
As Good as Poison
Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can't shake the feeling that life is slipping away from him. The most effective medicine for such woes is amorous adventures, and Pavel indulges in them. His wife Alice is a lawyer by profession, so she knows about such cases, and because she is a wise woman, she passes them over in silence. One day, however, a new colleague appears at Pavel's workplace - the charming Slovakian Julie. A friendly relationship soon turns into a love affair, and over time it grows into a headless, destructive passion that cares for nothing and no one...
Release Date1986-07-01
Vote Count4
My Brother Has a Cute Brother
Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fan, answers the questions of his schoolfriend Pavlína in a superior tone. Student Zuzana (Libuse Safránková), who gave her scarf to Honza to wear around his neck for the races as a talisman is Honza's girlfriend. He met her when he came to her parent's home to repair the TV set. Honza declines an invitation to celebration with his friends. He goes off with Zuzana instead, but she refuses his intimate advances. The offended young man, who is about to serve his two years in the army, tries to blackmail her emotionally and the couple breaks up. Martin tries various schemes to bring them together again.
Release Date1975-08-08
Vote Count8
Táto sežeň štěně
The holiday story revolves around the children of editor Hlavsa and their desire to get a dog. Dad bravely faces his children's wish and all he cares about is the dreamed summer peace. However, the editor's unexpectedly requested regular feature stories from the children's lives change everything. The uproar in the pages of the newspaper and the children's determination not to give up on their dream leads to the hope that something four-legged might eventually turn up at the Hlavs' after all.
Release Date1964-11-06
Vote Count4
Lovers in the Year One
It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everything that catches his attention. One day he captures an interesting face on film, a girl with an air of mystery. Pavel visits the girl, whose name is Helena, and meets hers and her elder energetic sister Olga. From Olga, he learns that the girls have spent the years of German occupation in a concentration camp and cannot forget the horrors they have lived through.
Release Date1974-03-15
Vote Count1
Day for My Love
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
Release Date1977-06-03
Vote Count8
Volejte Martina
The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short stories: in the first ("Three Bottles"), the young hero, escaping from an orphanage, gets involved in a robbery of postage stamps..., in the second ("Flying Carousel"), the children fight a dishonest owner of fairground rides...
Release Date1966-09-02
Vote Count1
Láska nebeská
The filmmakers gave a glimpse into an everyday family through four micro-stories that focused mainly on love plots. They notice the usual situations when things go wrong - for example, on a Sunday off or on holiday, they show how a misunderstood person feels...
Release Date1964-01-01
Cesta peklem
A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however, one of them is struck by a family tragedy in which his son dies. The man cannot overcome this tragedy and ends up in a psychiatric ward. Will he be able to return with the help of his friends?
Release Date1995-05-25
Vote Count1
Láska neláskavá
A tragic story of two young people who are in the precious moments of first emotional flare deeply disappointed by the shallow feelings of their parents as well as their relatives and friends.
Release Date1969-07-04
Young Edisons
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 gift with electronics.
Release Date1987-12-01
Vote Count2
Tvář za sklem
Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does not even recognize the other when they meet by chance. No wonder, since the father has been in prison for a long time and his son was raised by a former family friend after his mother's death...
Release Date1979-11-23
Pozor volá Liška...
Release Date1962-01-01
Oranžový měsíc
A medium-length story about the birth of a father and son friendship.
Release Date1962-01-01