Karel Engel
Birthday: 1940-05-28
Place of Birth: Praha, Protektorát Čechy a Morava
Biography: Karel Engel was a Czech wrestler and actor who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was an actor, known for Záhada hlavolamu (1993), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) and Lemonade Joe (1964). He died on 30 December 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Movies
Settlement of Crows
First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu, base...
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House Call
Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu...
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Quiet American in Prague
In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in ...
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Vítězný lid
February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe....
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colle...
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Beauty and the Beast
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father...
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Past na kachnu
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the ...
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Píseň o stromu a růži
Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in const...
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Radost až do rána
A psychological story about dissatisfied individuals who despise the stereotypes of others, but crea...
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Ball Lightning
A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Acti...
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The Secret of Steel City
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna a...
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Lvi salónů
A marquee stands on a sprawling Prague housing estate and is home to two young bricklayers, who have...
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The Young Man and Moby Dick
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian ...
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Love Between the Raindrops
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cob...
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The Medal
The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In ...
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Dark Sun
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explo...
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Run, Waiter, Run!
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make ...
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Bulldogs and Cherries
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of t...
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Visitors from the Galaxy
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group...
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That Instant, That While
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty......
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Attention, Rounds!
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital....
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Tarzanova smrt
In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement ...
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Salty Rose
The happiness that has passed away will never return - this is exactly what a young Polish man learn...
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Courage for Every Day
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of hi...
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Adventures with a Naked Boy
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was ...
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Cesta peklem
A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One d...
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The Finnish Knife
Two young men, thinking that they've killed someone, flee to Poland....
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Lady on the Tracks
Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since s...
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Capricious Summer
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimmi...
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The Valley of the Bees
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by ...
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I, Justice
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War,...
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got ...
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The End of Agent W4C
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in ...
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Honor and Glory
This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to be...
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Crime in the Night Club
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this cou...
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A Case for a Rookie Hangman
Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on f...
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Objížďka
The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a dis...
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Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. ...
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Witchhammer
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confe...
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Sny o Zambezi
Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But th...
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beard...
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Kateřina a její děti
A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daug...
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Lucie and the Miracles
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slap...
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Svatby pana Voka
Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventure...
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And Give My Love to the Swallows
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda...
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Six Bears and a Clown
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. T...
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Miss Golem
It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Fut...
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Death Chooses
Radek Simek, the driver of a postal car, is shot dead on his regular route. The Investigators give u...
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Kronika žhavého léta
A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: r...
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A Night at Karlstein
No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamou...
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Almost King
A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular her...
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Zatykač na královnu
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chem...
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My Dear Aunt and Me
Two kind but foolish sisters live together in their villa in a small town in South Bohemia. Fany (Na...
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Dvacátý devátý
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as recon...
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How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is usi...
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Zbraně pro Prahu
In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, p...
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Sokolovo
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 19...
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The Day That Shook the World
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, wo...
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Čas lásky a naděje
A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemi...
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Dům Na poříčí
The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events s...
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The Liberation of Prague
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germa...
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Our Gang
Energetic Dr. Alice Váňová becomes the pit doctor at Mír Mine and spearheads a silicosis prevention ...
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The Little Mermaid
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she ma...
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Vrak
This naively filmed adventure story draws from Robert L. Stvenson's novel, but adapts it to its own ...
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Putování Jana Amose
The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the Wh...
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Samorost
Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Althoug...
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Sestricky
A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is...
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but t...
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Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors...
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Hubert the Smart Boy
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like...
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Amadeus
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
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Komediant
Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato....
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Oldrich and Bozena
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...
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...nebo být zabit
March 1945. It is already quite obvious to the Nazis that they cannot win the war. So it is time to ...
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The Motive for Murder
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", K...
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Tísňové volání
A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his...
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing do...
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Circus in the Circus
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and a...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomati...
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Mystery of the Puzzle
A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead ...
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Sun, Hay, Berries
A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, a...
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Dva na koni, jeden na oslu
The musical version of the successful play of Oldřich Daněk was transferred to the screen by directo...
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Bitva o Hedviku
In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this ...
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Marathon
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The C...
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Zátah
A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously ill...
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The Jester's Tale
An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years' War. It follows ploughman Petr, recruiter Matě...
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Lemonade Joe
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Ko...
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Hrozba
The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made ...
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Tam kde hnízdí čápi
Despite the initial mistrust of others, former glass worker Štěoán Urban becomes the founder and fir...
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Zelená léta
Four short stories depicting the private life of Czechoslovak soldiers. In the short story "The Phea...
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The Octopuses from the Second Floor
While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a po...
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Jsi falešný hráč
Even the best of friends can fall apart, often all it takes is a minor misunderstanding. That's exac...
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Pavučina
Zdeněk Zaoral began filming this film in semi-amateur conditions, but it was eventually completed in...
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The Great Movie Robbery
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary o...
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Currency and Peace
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exc...
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On a Wayward Princess
Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two ...
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Young Edisons
Children's film about a young boy who moves from the city to the country. At first he finds it diffi...
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Horká kaše
In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing se...
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Můj přítel d’Artagnan
Milda, a 13-year-old boy, loves to read adventure novels and imagines himself as a musketeer. He spe...
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Byli jsme to my?
The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose mem...
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