Karel Lamač

Karel Lamač

Birth : 1897-01-27, Prague

Death : 1952-08-02

History

Karel Lamač (1897 – 1952) was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. After starting as a combat cameraman in WW1, Lamač went on to direct more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Profile

Karel Lamač
Karel Lamač

Movies

Unsterblicher Valentin
Director
Lachkabinett
Director
The Thief of Bagdad
Director
Fatma has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact. But when she's caught rifling through Caliph Omar's possessions, she finds herself in serious trouble. News of a theft makes the rounds and now the caliph's men are after her. Fortunately, she's able to find refuge with a sheikh, who isn't quite so thorough in checking his possessions. And it's thanks to him, that Fatma is able to get away with her newly acquired goods.
One Night at the Tabarin
Director
Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive schemes of Cora, Tabarin's sultry star, Lurvire gradually lowers his guard, discovers the good life and abandons his wife.
Anger of the Gods
Director
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
It Happened One Sunday
Director
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
Schweik's New Adventures
Director
Nazis are nothing to the wily good soldier Schweik (Lloyd Pearson).
They Met in the Dark
Director
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Narcisse
Screenplay
To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.
The Ghost Train
Director
A group of travelers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station, which according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years.
He Stood at the Till
Director
U pokladny stál... is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 1939.
Slávko nedej se!
Director
Place de la Concorde
Director
Pozor straší
Screenplay
Pozor straší
Director
Florentine
Director
Lucerna
Director
Duchacek Will Fix It
Self – Director
Duchacek Will Fix It
Director
Frühlingsluft
Director
Milování zakázáno
Director
Milování zakázáno
Tonny
Waltz Melodies
Director
The big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands before the bankruptcy. Only when her husband has convinced himself that she will remain loyal to him, Marietta may go on working. Revue film according to pattern: a lot of music, sturdy situation comic and popular stars.
Pat und Patachon im Paradies
Director
Die Landstreicher
Director
Důvod k rozvodu
Director
Der Scheidungsgrund
Producer
Der Scheidungsgrund
Director
Peter im Schnee
Director
Vor Liebe wird gewarnt
Director
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Producer
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
Ein Mädel vom Ballett
Director
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Director
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson look into reports that a huge, vicious hound has killed Lord Charles Baskerville and that Lord Henry Baskerville is the next to be killed.
Where the Lark Sings
Director
Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him, and agrees to accompany him to the capital, so he can complete the painting there. Disillusionment sets in, however, when Sándor wins a prize with the finished portrait and loses interest in her. Margit recognizes that her true happiness lies at home, with Pista, her faithful lover.
Na tý louce zelený
Václav Bulfínek
Na tý louce zelený
Director
Flitterwochen
Director
Der schüchterne Casanova
Director
The Postman from Longjumeau
Director
La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in France for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his bride-of-an-hour to go to Paris. Alfer seeing the handsome tenor, the Marquise decides not to let his bride, Madeliane, join him in Paris. Graf de Latour, banished from the court for his bawdy song about La Pompadour, goes to the town where Chapelou has left his bride and sees an opportunity to get even. He takes Madeleine in hand and after exhaustive grooming and make-over he returns to court with her as his banishment has been lifted, and Chepelou, failing to recognize hie own wife, falls in love with her.
Der junge Graf
Director
The White Horse Inn
Director
Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. It is about the head waiter of the White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang who is desperately in love with the owner of the inn, a resolute young woman who at first only has eyes for one of her regular guests.
J'aime toutes les femmes
Director
Jean Morena, famous operatic tenor, is determined to change his engagements for some freedom after the performance. So his manager has the idea of contracting Eugène, a grocery worker who looks just like him and is willing to become a singer, to take his place. Destiny will make them change places also in romantic business.
Ich liebe alle Frauen
Director
Famous 1930's tenor Jan Kiepura doubles as a singing shop-assistant who stands in for a famous but lazy singer, mixing up each others love-lives in the process.
Großreinemachen
Director
Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
Director
Polská krev
Director
Don't Make Grandpa Angry
Director
Polish Blood
Director
The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.
Der Fall Brenken
Director
Film by Lamac.
Tři kroky od těla
Tommy Fikejs
Klein-Dorrit
Director
Frasquita
Director
Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotna plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest Frasquita. Based on a Franz Lehar operetta, the story is the usual frothy nonsense. Dolly (Charlotte Daudert) is engaged to marry Hyppolit (Heinz Ruhmann), but she's really in love with Harold (Hans Heinz-Bollman). Hyppolit is likewise enamored of another, namely Frasquita (Jarmila Novotna). Alas, Dolly and Hyppolit must go through with the wedding, despite the dictates of their hearts. That there's a happy ending all the same comes as a surprise only to the characters on the screen.
Der verhexte Scheinwerfer
Director
German short comedy.
So ein Theater!
Director
Short comedy written by Karl Valentin
L'amour en cage
Director
Im Schallplattenladen
Producer
A customer (Karl Valentin) tries to buy a record in a record store but can not decide what he actually wants. The saleswoman (Liesl Karlstadt) tries to help him – which is in vain, as the customer eventually damages various records and even a complete cabinet during his visit.
Carnival of Love
Writer
A popular, big spending matinee idol chases a blonde while trying to elude a heartless creditor.
Carnival of Love
Director
A popular, big spending matinee idol chases a blonde while trying to elude a heartless creditor.
Die vertauschte Braut
Director
Jindra, the Countess Ostrovín
Director
Jindra, the Countess Ostrovín
Dr. Vojtěch Lípa
Das verliebte Hotel
Director
Orchesterprobe
Director
A musician and his conductor clash in this Bavarian film classic; Mixed-up music sheets and mismanaged minutes. Miscommunication is brought to extremes by expert comedians.
Dobrý tramp Bernášek
Alois Bernášek
Dobrý tramp Bernášek
Screenplay
Dobrý tramp Bernášek
Story
Dobrý tramp Bernášek
Director
The Twelve Chairs
Screenplay
The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book
S vyloučením veřejnosti
JUDr. Anatol Brynda
S vyloučením veřejnosti
Editor
Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Director
La fille du régiment
Director
Die Tochter des Regiments
Director
Baby
Director
Baby
Director
The daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.
Kiki
Director
Kiki who has a walk-on part in a show, is in love with her director, who doesn't notice her at all. She settles into his home and causes him to break up with his lover, the star of the show; and finally manages to make him love her.
The Ideal Schoolmaster
Lyricist
This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who becomes an ideal target for pranks and jokes.
The Ideal Schoolmaster
Karel Suchý
This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who becomes an ideal target for pranks and jokes.
The Ideal Schoolmaster
Editor
This light-hearted comedy operetta tells the story of a newly appointed high school professor who becomes an ideal target for pranks and jokes.
The Ringer
Director
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
The Cruel Girlfriend
Producer
The Cruel Girlfriend
Director
The Undertaker
Director
Should We Wed Them?
Director
Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.
Une nuit au paradis
Co-Producer
Une nuit au paradis
Director
La chauve-souris
Director
Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes
Director
The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.
A Night in Paradise
Director
One of the popular Weimar-era musical comedies not released in the US until after the Nazi takeover, this one has a Cinderella-type plot.
The bat
Director
Film by Karel Lamac.
Mr. Marshal
Director
Business in Distress
Director
Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, and finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
Mamsell Nitouche
Director
A convent organist escorts a young lady who has been boarding there,home to be married, but various romantic complications ensue.
The Squeeker
Producer
Him and His Sister
Editor
Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
Him and His Sister
Director
Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.
Meet the Sister
Director
A friend as golden as you
Director
The wrong field marshal
Director
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal
Editor
Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal
Director
Comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
The Great Longing
Himself
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
Those of the Sideshow
Producer
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
Those of the Sideshow
Director
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Hobbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
The girl from USA
Director
An old sin
The Virgin of Paris
Director
Adjunkt Vrba
Pražské švadlenky
Das Mädel mit der Peitsche
Director
The Sins of Love
Director
The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.
Sündig und süß
Director
Father Vojtech
Vojtech
Father Vojtech (Czech: Páter Vojtěch) is a 1929 silent Czech romance film directed by Martin Frič.
Sündenfall
Director
Suzy Saxophone
Director
Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.
Der erste Kuß
Director
Daughters of Eve
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
Daughters of Eve
Director
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
Květ ze Šumavy
Květ ze Šumavy
Screenplay
Květ ze Šumavy
Story
Květ ze Šumavy
Director
Květ ze Šumavy
Producer
V panském stavu
Aničko, vrať se!
The Old Man Bezousek
Jirí Krális
A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.
The Old Man Bezousek
Director
A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.
Velbloud uchem jehly
Alík Vilím
Velbloud uchem jehly
Screenplay
Velbloud uchem jehly
Director
Švejk na frontě
1st Lt. Lukás
Directed by Carl Lamac.
Švejk na frontě
Director
Directed by Carl Lamac.
Hraběnka z Podskalí
Hraběnka z Podskalí
Screenplay
Hraběnka z Podskalí
Director
Dobrý voják Švejk
Director
Dobrý voják Švejk
Josef Kajetán Tyl
Frantisek Palacký
A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.
Do panského stavu
Lucerna
Screenplay
A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.
Lucerna
Director
A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.
Lucerna
Zajícek
A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.
Syn hor
Šest mušketýrů
The Czech Film Archive and Filmarchiv Austria both hold the film in their collections.
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Screenplay
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Story
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Director
Svatební košile
Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy
Chyťte ho!
Story
Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
Chyťte ho!
Screenplay
Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
Chyťte ho!
Director
Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
Chyťte ho!
Painter Johnny Miller bets his friends he can find his house blindfolded. But he stumbles into a bandits' camp, and being mistaken for one of them, is sent to rob the villa of Frank Sellins, a banker, and his niece Lilly.
Bar lady
Moderne Ehen
Mario Zeman
Dvojí život
White Paradise
Story
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
White Paradise
Screenplay
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
White Paradise
Ivan Holar
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
White Paradise
Director
After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.
Der geheime Agent
Herzog
Helen of Troy
Patroklos
Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based on the poem the Iliad by Homer. It was released in two separate parts: The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy. It was produced by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film was made on an epic scale with thousands of extras, and large sets which rivalled those of the larger Berlin-based UFA.
The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Tom Darey
Muž bez srdce
Prince Edgar of Georgia
Young Medardus
Franz
Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.
Tu ten kámen
Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
Karel Svansen
A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
Screenplay
A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
Story
A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
Dr. Jenkins Miracle Cure
Director
A brave young woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger.
Koryatovič
Poslední polibek
Mrtví žijí
Hütet eure Töchter
Sněhulka a sedm trpaslíků
Sněhová Růženka
O zázračném květu
Děvčata, vdávejte se!
Souboj s Bohem
Magdalena
Poisoned Light
Screenplay
Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Poisoned Light
Story
Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Poisoned Light
Director
Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Poisoned Light
Ing. Milan Bell
Professor Grant signs a contract with Dr. Selin for the sale of his invention of cold light with the plans for his invention being kept in Grant's apartment. The negotiations are secretly heard by the illusionist Durk, who wants to seize the invention. A few days later Selín is found dead, killed by a light bulb filled with poisonous gas. Durk performs at the birthday party of Grant's daughter Anna and seizes the plans for the invention.
Arrival from the Darkness
Jesek Drazický
Shot in the early 1920s, this classic film about the elixir of life and the secret of the Black Tower has finally been restored to its original version.
The Crucified
During a pogrom against Jews in a village, an innkeeper is killed, his daughter is put in a convent after being crucified, and her illegitimate child, who later grows up to be a student, is placed in the care of a guardian.
Setřelé písmo
Zpěv zlata
There in the Mountains
Jaromir Hanus
“And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you”. This quote from the Gospel of Luke is read out loud by one of the characters in Tam na horách. It will manifest itself in the destinies of the two protagonists, in the story of an unmarried mother from a mountain village, who becomes a great opera singer and toast of the city salons, and in the story of her seducer, a successful painter. The fate of the two lovers offers a double perspective. One of the advertising slogans for Tam na horách was “The first Czech film of international production”, which helped to rise the audience’s expectations.
Zlatá žena
Gilly poprvé v Praze
Gilly poprvé v Praze
Story
Gilly poprvé v Praze
Director
Gilly poprvé v Praze
Producer
Probuzené svědomí
Palimpsest
Akord smrti
Akord smrti
Director
Aloisův los
Vzteklý ženich
Vzteklý ženich
Screenplay
Vzteklý ženich
Story
Vzteklý ženich
Director
Utrpením ke slávě