Birthday: 1897-01-27
Place of Birth: Prague
Biography: Karel Lamač (1897 – 1952) was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. After starting as a combat cameraman in WW1, Lamač went on to direct more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
A joint edit of the first three silent films about Švejk: The Good Soldier Švejk (1926, directed by ...
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Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir...
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This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who be...
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Lieutenant Lukáš was transferred to the marching battalion in České Budějovice together with Švejko....
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A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra...
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One of the first Czechoslovak films to be shown abroad--a fantasy horror, filmed on the fully furnis...
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A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl....
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A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais....
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Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the...
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Father Vojtech (Czech: Páter Vojtěch) is a 1929 silent Czech romance film directed by Martin Frič....
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Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vie...
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This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a stor...
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After many years, three friends are to meet in Prague. The magician Marek was in America and, togeth...
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After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners ...
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An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others....
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The first film treatment of the fate of the good soldier Švejk, a dog dealer from Prague, who is arr...
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Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a ban...
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A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger....
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Dissolute Abel Beer, with the help of his debt collector friends - usurers, swindles a Prague Doctor...
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In Transcarpathia, Prince Laborets wields a divine ring that ensures his land’s peace and prosperity...
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“And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall ...
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Mr. Ducháček runs the law firm of JUDr. Faukner in a peculiar but completely devoted manner, which m...
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During a pogrom against Jews in a village, an innkeeper is killed, his daughter is put in a convent ...
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The village girl Žofka goes to work in Prague, where she is seduced by the reckless Rudolf Slaba. Ru...
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