Directing

Bohdan Karásek

Born 1978-09-27 · Brno, Česko

Bohdan Karásek (1978, Brno) is a musician, film director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Higher Vocational School of Film in Zlín and later studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at FAMU, where he also worked as a teaching assistant. He has been making short amateur and experimental films since the 1990s. In 2008, he directed the film The Promising Generation. His last two ‘apartment films’, Lucie (2011) and Love Songs (2013), were produced independently by the Alfred Bouriana Film Company. In 2019, his feature film Karel, Me and You premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, for which he won the Innogy Award for Discovery of the Year. In 2026, his film Everything As It Should Be, produced by Beginner’s Mind, had its world premiere at KVIFF once again.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Love Songs poster
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Another "bytový film" by Bohdan Karásek. Milostné písně already uses a more structured screenplay and the plot takes place at many different locations. Another conversational drama.

Love Songs

2013

Love Songs poster
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Another "bytový film" by Bohdan Karásek. Milostné písně already uses a more structured screenplay and the plot takes place at many different locations. Another conversational drama.

Love Songs

2013

Everything As It Should Be poster
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Monika has the life she always dreamed of: she’s a successful doctor and expecting a child in a happy relationship with Lukáš. But is she truly happy? When she unexpectedly reunites with her ex-husband Petr after years, her doubts deepen. A brief meeting turns into a long walk through a summer city, during which unanswered questions begin to surface: "Why did we actually break up back then?" and "What if we had made a different choice?" Through dialogue and gentle humor, we observe how a subtle closeness re-emerges between them in quiet moments - whether in the rain, on a tram, or in the park. Director Bohdan Karásek crafts a sensitive, intimate drama about the roads not taken.

Everything As It Should Be

2026

Everything As It Should Be poster
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Monika has the life she always dreamed of: she’s a successful doctor and expecting a child in a happy relationship with Lukáš. But is she truly happy? When she unexpectedly reunites with her ex-husband Petr after years, her doubts deepen. A brief meeting turns into a long walk through a summer city, during which unanswered questions begin to surface: "Why did we actually break up back then?" and "What if we had made a different choice?" Through dialogue and gentle humor, we observe how a subtle closeness re-emerges between them in quiet moments - whether in the rain, on a tram, or in the park. Director Bohdan Karásek crafts a sensitive, intimate drama about the roads not taken.

Everything As It Should Be

2026

Lucie poster
8.0

Lucie is a conversational movie, sometimes also called "bytový film" which in translation means "residential movie". The story takes place in one location which is the flat of one of the character's whose name is Lucie. Lucie invites a group of people to have a few drinks and to have some interesting conversations.

Lucie

2011

Lucie poster
8.0

Lucie is a conversational movie, sometimes also called "bytový film" which in translation means "residential movie". The story takes place in one location which is the flat of one of the character's whose name is Lucie. Lucie invites a group of people to have a few drinks and to have some interesting conversations.

Lucie

2011

Karel, Me and You poster
4.9

Karel and Saša's marriage has reached a dead end, so Saša moves out of the house for a while. She finds temporary refuge with Dušan, an old acquaintance who once played at their wedding. Both of them, sometimes together, sometimes separately, explore the elusive topic of relationships and shed light on it from their opposite perspectives.

Karel, Me and You

2019

Karel, Me and You poster
4.9

Karel and Saša's marriage has reached a dead end, so Saša moves out of the house for a while. She finds temporary refuge with Dušan, an old acquaintance who once played at their wedding. Both of them, sometimes together, sometimes separately, explore the elusive topic of relationships and shed light on it from their opposite perspectives.

Karel, Me and You

2019

Karel, Me and You poster
4.9

Karel and Saša's marriage has reached a dead end, so Saša moves out of the house for a while. She finds temporary refuge with Dušan, an old acquaintance who once played at their wedding. Both of them, sometimes together, sometimes separately, explore the elusive topic of relationships and shed light on it from their opposite perspectives.

Karel, Me and You

2019