Vladimír Michálek (Director)

Little is known about Vladimír Michálek, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Em a On

Release Date2011-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Dáma a Král

Release Date2017-10-22

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count5

Angel Exit

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

Release Date2000-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Mamon

While investigating the privatization of energy giant Central Energy, journalist Petra Vlčka uncovers corruption involving his brother the CEO.

Release Date2015-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count5

The Shooter

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

Release Date1995-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count60

Záchranári

Release Date2003-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Sekal Has to Die

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

Release Date1998-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

The Smoke

The film is based on a legendary school film of Tomáš Vorel, called INg (1985). The storyline stays the same - a young engineer finds a new job and wants to work, this proves to be impossible in the last days of the communist era.

Release Date1991-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Unit Director

Vote Count24

Okno do hřbitova

Release Date2012-09-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Of Parents and Children

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.

Release Date2008-03-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Autumn Spring

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.

Release Date2001-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Forgotten Light

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)

Release Date1996-12-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Loaded Eels

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.

Release Date2019-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Storyteller

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

Release Date2014-11-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

The Messenger

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.

Release Date2012-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Blue-Eyed

In this suspense story, the main character, Johann Neudorff, immigrated to Argentina from Germany after World War Two, and has become a successful businessman there. He is unconcerned with the nature of the government there, which at the time of this film (1978) is a military dictatorship. His comfortable existence is disrupted when he discovers that his beloved daughter Laura has become the lover of a political activist who is on the military's hit list. When his daughter is kidnapped, Johann attempts to use his government connections to free both her and her lover. However, his son Alfredo undermines his efforts, and Johann himself is incarcerated in a military prison, but not before he discovers that his daughter and her lover are both dead, killed by the regime.

Release Date1989-10-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Prague Stories

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

Release Date1999-04-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Amerika

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).

Release Date1994-06-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7