Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion.

A dog’s funeral becomes part of a chain of absurd events including a tomato ketchup battle, a reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz and a motorbike show. Its common denominator is the commercial interest of sponsors and big buisness, the ambivalent winners of privatization and participants of numerous coruption affairs...

The most characteristic theme of the film, whose actors are symbolically “imprisoned” in the space of Prague’s National Theatre, is that of subversive battles launched against any sort of establishment (in politics, scholarship, and culture) and the rules or “laws” that frequently work against them—rules that, of course, also offer a moral justification for battle. Vachek, in this film, is interested in figures who engage in these kinds of battles, a majority of whom have already suffered some kind of setback...

An idiosyncratic testimony of the condition of the Czech spirit at the turn of the millennium, presenting a melting pot of humanistic tradition, shades of the totalitarian past and, on occasion, bizarre expressions of nonconformist thinking. A merry collage of opinions and ideas inspired by hidden natural processes which attest to the profound intrinsic order of life.

A multifaceted film essay that, in many respects, reflects the "opposition” and proposes a creative approach to the kind of life which confronts creativity with providential determination. Literally an intellectual shift towards possible alternatives with the help of two buses, a colourful cast of characters and assorted film technicians. Arguably Karel Vachek’s most important work.

Through a mosaic of events, opinions, and goings on, Karel Vachek records the situation preceding the Czechoslovak elections in 1990. With subtle irony he juxtaposes various phenomena and on the screen portrays the surprising socio-political context of the incredible whirl of the first free elections after the fall of the communist regime...

On 22 March 1968 President Antonín Novotný gave in to the pressure of the reformist communists headed by Alexander Dubček and resigned. It is necessary to elect a new head of state who has set out on the path of „socialism with a human face“...

The film debut of Karel Vachek, the most important personality in Czech film documentaries and one of the most important names in Czech cinematography as a whole.

Film portrait of the czech painter Kamil Lhoták.