Karel Čapek

Writing

Karel Čapek

Born 1890-01-09 · Malé Svatoňovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Karel Čapek was a Czech writer of the early 20th century. He had multiple roles throughout his career, including playwright, dramatist, essayist, publisher, literary reviewer, photographer and art critic. Nonetheless, he is best known for his science fiction including his novel War with the Newts and the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word robot

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Elixir of Youth poster
2.0

A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.

Elixir of Youth

2017

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NR

An inventor, Bubi, creates a female android he calls "Wera." Unfortunately, a gang of robbers finds out about Wera, steals her, and uses her to commit a series of crimes in Prague. (io9.com)

Robot-Girl Nr. 1

1938

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4.3

Juraj Hordubal returns from America after eight years, where he has earned enough money to improve his farm. However, his daughter Hafia does not recognize him and his wife Polana does not show any joy at his return. Štěpán Manya has been a farmhand on the farm all these years, and people claim that he has become Polana's lover. Juraj denies the accusations and believes that his wife's distance from him is only due to the long separation...

The Hordubals

1938

Robot poster
NR

What makes us human? What do robots bring to us? Seiji Nozoe directs this masterpiece by the Czech national author and playwright Karel Capek. This 1920 play, which questions the development of civilization, is brought into the modern era.

Robot

2025

The Insect Play poster
7.0

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

The Insect Play

1939

R.U.R. Genesis poster
NR

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explores dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

R.U.R. Genesis

2013