Jan Ruml

Hledači pevného bodu (2024)

For twelve years, a film crew has been following the lives of four people who appeared in public in November 1989. Musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml, young participant in the National Avenue intervention Kryštof Rímský, and student leader Mart ...

Zánik Československa v parlamentu (2024)

Ján Langoš – strážca pamäti (2023)

What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government (1996)

Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus's right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comprehen ...

A znovu Žebrácká opera (1996)

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution. ...

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director's ini­mitable ...