Karel Kachyna, an internationally acclaimed Czech filmmaker who took on subjects that were taboo under communism, died March 12. He was 79. Mr. Kachyna died in a hospital near Prague, his family said.

FILMS BY KAREL KACHYNA. Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, Feb. 20-March 4; (212) 505-5110. THOUGH HE NEVER achieved the international reputation of his colleagues Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and ...

`The Cow,” which opens Friday for a weeklong run at Facets Multimedia, is a burningly sharp fable of the cycles of life, death and marriage. The movie’s protagonist, Adam, lives in a remote village ...

The most disturbing aspect of Karel Kachyňa’s superior paranoid thriller isn’t that the protagonists discover surveillance equipment in their house; it is that they have already made concessions in ...

Karel Kachyna, 79, a noted Czech filmmaker who took on subjects that were taboo under communism, died Friday in a hospital near Prague, his family said. Most of Kachyna’s best-known work, such as ...

Opening with a ritual nod to Franz Kafka, this dankly atmospheric dark comedy, made in People’s Czechoslovakia and long banned, is a sort of political version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, ...

Director Karel Kachyna gets his metaphors in early in Forbidden Dreams, otherwise known by its more evocative Czech title, Smrt krásných srnců (The Death of Beautiful Deer). Mr Popper (Karel Heřmánek) ...

Domestic turmoil with a political dimension, as a Communist official and his wife bicker while trying to avoid a bugging device. Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jirina Bohdalova. Directed and co-scripted by ...