
Acting
Karol L. Zachar
Born — Died
1918-01-12 — 2003-12-17
Place of birth
Antol, Austria-Hungary
Known for
Acting
Credits
67 titles
Known for
5.2Miniseries based on a 1914 historical novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer - The War of the Oxen - set against the backdrop of the War of the Oxen in the 1420s.
Der Ochsenkrieg
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Rozprávky pätnástich sestier
1982
7.4The first Slovakian colour film. A celebration of traditional Slovakian folklore and creativity expressed through a story of young love .
Homeland
1954
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Sám vojak v poli
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Škriatok
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Štúrovci
1991
Film credits
1980s · 9 titles
A tragedy of great and bloody conflicts, turbulent emotions and clashes, centred on a couple torn by passion – Macbeth and his wife, who persuades him to seize the throne. Macbeth murders the king, but must fight for power against the king's descendants.
Macbeth
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Mechúrik Koščúrik s kamarátmi
1984
Little Vinco longs to play in the village brass band even though his teachers say he has no musical ear. After many problems at home with his parents and at school, Vinco finally makes it in the village orchestra as a heligan player when he obeys his uncle Rafael and practices hard...
Otec ma zderie tak, či tak...
1980
No synopsis available yet.
Dirigent
1988
2.5After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.
Hordubal
1980
6.2The son of a charcoal burner was once prophesied as a child to marry the daughter of a king. The king tries to prevent this by all means.
Plavčík a Vratko
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Rozlúčka s Máriou
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Vlci
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Sen o kováčovi
1986
1970s · 7 titles
4.2Visiting Slovakian Racha to get antiquated with Slovakian wine-making techniques, Rachvelian from Georgia, Zauri, falls in love with Slovak Darina. Consequentially, when Darina visits Georgia, Zauri does his best to make her also love him.
Racha, My Love
1977
7.4A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.
Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Višňový sad
1978
The poverty of Slovak workers during the Great Depression during the Masaryk Republic reached such a level that it led to a well-organized strike. The capitalists and their minions tried by all means to break it. Even the workers who had not yet been elected soon recognized their place and supported the initiative of the communists, who selflessly led the strike movement. The poster-like, purely ideological story succumbs to paper-like dialogues and plots, and the narrative portrayal hardly convinces of the credibility of the whole story.
Nie
1978
NRA story in which the author mocks the Slovak petty bourgeoisie and denounces the denationalization of the gentry in the nineteenth century. Some problems such as patronage, bribery, and imitation of foreign models sound surprisingly simultaneous.
Kocúrkovo
1971
6.0Television film based on the classic Slovak drama by Ivan Stodola. The theme of the play is the return of a supposedly dead man. The Ondrej-Eva-Mišo relationship triangle will only be solved by the death of one of them.
Sheperds Wife
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Husliar a sirota
1978
1960s · 11 titles
7.8This film is one of the most popular pictures of Slovak cinema and relates the story about the legendary folk hero and brigand Juro Jánošík [1688-1713] and the social situation in Slovakia of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The first part talks about Jánošík's childhood, studies and return to his native village. In the second part Jánošík leaves for the hills, where he organizes his band of brigands and starts an anti-feudal resistance. The film concludes with Jánošík's execution.
Jánošík
1963
A comedy drawing on classical antiquity. In the play, the author mocks stupidity and arrogance, and also metes out just retribution.
Chvastúň
1962
9.0The unhappy and desperate director of the Šúpala Zoo tries to sell a sick bear to a foreign tourist for shooting, because the purchase of other animals for the ZOO is only possible with anti-socialist currency, i.e. hard currency, and so the administrator does everything possible and impossible just to get them...
Tango pre medveďa
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Vejár
1965
The film is inspired by the life of the Goral population in the Orava region, a life connected with the beautiful but harsh nature, rich in emotional expressions of folk culture. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of a young musician's unfulfilled love for an enchantingly beautiful girl.
Balada o Vojtovej Marine
1964
The film presents a parade of customs, music, songs and dances of the Slovak people in four seasons, based on a theatre play by I. Teren and K.L. Zachar from the first years after the liberation.
Rok na dedine
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Drotár
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Geľo Sebechlebský
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Žltý dostavník
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Trasorítka
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Stratený list
1965
1950s · 9 titles
7.4The first Slovakian colour film. A celebration of traditional Slovakian folklore and creativity expressed through a story of young love .
Homeland
1954
6.3A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
St. Peter's Umbrella
1958
Historical satire from the first half of the 19th century, which captures the decay and decline of the landed estate. The impoverished peasants still seem to adhere to the old principles of peasant honor and glory, but the elections will show how easy it is to buy knightly qualities.
Earthly Honor
1958
"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name
Nástup
1953
6.8The border must be guarded against insidious intruders, of that the brave border guard has no doubt. He takes in a shot dog, gains its trust, and eventually, thanks to it, catches an enemy agent who wanted to disrupt the peaceful life of our progressive people.
Ztracená stopa
1956
A construction comedy about the labor struggle of two groups of workers in a Prague factory. The old group is led by the grinder Karhan, while the young group is led by his son. The struggle between the two groups leads to the emergence of socialist competition and cooperation, in which the old share their experience with the young, and the young share their new ideas.
Karhanova parta
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Kozie mlieko
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Rohy
1956
5.0The construction of a large dam in Slovakia is hindered by the influence of small farmers on the landowner Bujna, on whom they depend for help with the harvest and for monetary loans.
Priehrada
1950
1940s · 3 titles
A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.
White Darkness
1948
6.6This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.
Wolves' Lairs
1948
6.5Two roommates – Ivan Trnovský, a university student from a wealthy family, and Petr Gazdík, a young composer, try to win the affections of a young teacher, Hanka. She teaches schoolchildren to ski, and Ivan arranges a Christmas stay with her in the Tatra Mountains, in a cottage under the Devil's Wall...
Čertova stena
1949
Series credits
5.2Miniseries based on a 1914 historical novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer - The War of the Oxen - set against the backdrop of the War of the Oxen in the 1420s.
Der Ochsenkrieg
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Rozprávky pätnástich sestier
1982
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Sám vojak v poli
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Štúrovci
1991
A two-part TV drama about the life and work of Jozef Murgaš, a world-renowned inventor, talented painter, and Slovak patriot. The first part focuses mainly on his life in Slovakia and describes Murgaš's student years. He leaves the picturesque surroundings of his native Tajov to attend high school in Banská Bystrica and later, at his mother's request, continues his studies in theology at the Esztergom Seminary. However, his studies did not end with graduation from this faculty. His love of painting was stronger and led him first to a one-year art preparatory course in Budapest and then to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. However, he was unable to complete his studies due to brutal intervention by the authorities. The second part depicts Murgaš's life in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He worked there as a priest in the local church, which he built together with other Slovaks. He also contributed to the establishment of a school for Slovak children in Wilkes-Barre.
Reverend
1989
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
Škriatok
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Škriatok
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Najdúch
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Vejár
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Chlapci, dievčatá a psy
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Chlapci, dievčatá a psy
1970
Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They are cheerful but respectable ladies, so they devise a plan to punish the old rogue and teach him a lesson about his immoral advances and womanizing.
Veselé panie z Windsoru
1980
The film presents a parade of customs, music, songs and dances of the Slovak people in four seasons, based on a theatre play by I. Teren and K.L. Zachar from the first years after the liberation.
Rok na dedine
1968
NRA story in which the author mocks the Slovak petty bourgeoisie and denounces the denationalization of the gentry in the nineteenth century. Some problems such as patronage, bribery, and imitation of foreign models sound surprisingly simultaneous.
Kocúrkovo
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Drotár
1966
6.0Television film based on the classic Slovak drama by Ivan Stodola. The theme of the play is the return of a supposedly dead man. The Ondrej-Eva-Mišo relationship triangle will only be solved by the death of one of them.
Sheperds Wife
1972
6.0Television film based on the classic Slovak drama by Ivan Stodola. The theme of the play is the return of a supposedly dead man. The Ondrej-Eva-Mišo relationship triangle will only be solved by the death of one of them.
Sheperds Wife
1972
10.0A television production of the musical by Ernest Bryll and Katarzyna Gartnerová with a Jánošík theme. This play, staged by director Karol Zachar and choreographer Štefan Nosáľ, was an extraordinary success at the Slovak National Theatre.
Na skle maľované
1980
No synopsis available yet.
Geľo Sebechlebský
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Geľo Sebechlebský
1963
A television production of a comedy by Slovak playwright Ferek Urbánek about the love of Adam Brezovský and the beautiful Evuška from Kamenný mlyn, about old angers and misunderstandings with folk songs and dances.
Kamenný chodníček
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Štyria grobiani
1976
No synopsis available yet.
Trasorítka
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Čarovná čaša
1980
NRA television production of a play by Ján Palárik. A comedy directed against nationalism, national indifference and stupid arrogance. A classic plot built on a mix-up of characters.
Adventure at Obžinky
1968
NRA television production of a play by Ján Palárik. A comedy directed against nationalism, national indifference and stupid arrogance. A classic plot built on a mix-up of characters.
Adventure at Obžinky
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Rozmajrín
1969
