Vladimír Michálek

Directing

Vladimír Michálek

Born 1956-11-02

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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3.6

A drug dealer named Mikes, who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life.

Angel Exit

2000

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3.6

A drug dealer named Mikes, who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life.

Angel Exit

2000

Forgotten Light poster
6.2

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)

Forgotten Light

1996

Sekal Has to Die poster
6.5

ComiBaran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.

Sekal Has to Die

1998

Autumn Spring poster
7.0

A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure.

Autumn Spring

2001

Amerika poster
5.6

Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).

Amerika

1994

Amerika poster
5.6

Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).

Amerika

1994

Of Parents and Children poster
6.6

On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their bond.

Of Parents and Children

2008

Of Parents and Children poster
6.6

On a walk through Prague, a 40-year-old son's conversations with his septuagenarian father reveal complexities that both strain and sustain their bond.

Of Parents and Children

2008

Prague Stories poster
5.0

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

Prague Stories

1999

Prague Stories poster
5.0

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

Prague Stories

1999

Loaded Eels poster
2.7

This is not just a game. It is an escape from everyday life, an escape which is impossible to give up. Loaded Eels is a black comedy about a group of men who decided to escape from their everyday lives through role-playing. They pretend to be soldiers of SWAT team, evacuating community centers, dragging unsuspecting people into their game. They are driven by Adrenalin and delusion which makes them feel like Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. Everything goes smoothly until they find themselves in the wrong place and at the wrong time.

Loaded Eels

2019

Storyteller poster
4.5

A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of the entire book is the degree and limit of love, a right and ability to love several people simultaneously while hurting them at the same time. Written by Czech Film Center

Storyteller

2014

Prázdniny v Provence poster
3.2

A trio of rock-and-roll musicians arrives in the south of France for a sun-drenched summer of debauched fun and romance in this breezy comedy.

Prázdniny v Provence

2016

Prázdniny v Provence poster
3.2

A trio of rock-and-roll musicians arrives in the south of France for a sun-drenched summer of debauched fun and romance in this breezy comedy.

Prázdniny v Provence

2016

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NR

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Lovec a Datel

2004

The Messenger poster
2.7

Petr is a courier, a messenger as a matter of fact. He is one of those young men who believe that on their bikes they have become part and parcel of the atmosphere of modern cities. He is a non-conformist who refuses to settle into today‘s deformed society, he abhors its indolence, consumerism and lies, as well as its pseudo-truths, pseudo-feelings, pseudo-loves and pseudo-values. Petr’s untrammelled personality keeps causing more and more serious problems. And Petr is also one of those who will never admit to themselves that they might be at the end of their tether.

The Messenger

2012

Em a On poster
NR

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Em a On

2011

Em a On poster
NR

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Em a On

2011

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NR

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Pískovna

2004

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NR

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Jistota

1999