Karel Pech
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Karel Pech.
Born: May 18, 1917
Place of Birth: Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Known For
Africa - Part I - From Morocco to Kilimanjaro
The feature-length film by engineers J. Hanzelka and M. Zikmund captures how the two travelers prepared for their first trip around the world and in documentary footage describes their experiences from the first half of the trip through Africa. You will see for yourself what obstacles they had to overcome on the ravaged roads of Abyssinia and in what danger the fate of the expedition was during the daring passage through the Nubian desert. The film culminates with an ascent to the highest mountain in Africa, the extinct volcano Kilimanjaro, whose peak is covered in ice all year round.
Silent Barricade
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
From Argentina to Mexico
Travelers Hansel and Zikmund sail from Africa to South America. On their journey to film, they capture clouds of locusts on the plains of Argentina's Chaco, a snake farm in Butantane, skyscrapers in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, a visit to lepers in Paraguay, waterfalls in Iguazu, a daring expedition to the jungles of the Marañon river basin to hunt skull hunters. an Indian settlement in Panama and the journey ends prematurely in Mexico amidst the ruins of ancient Indian temples and pyramid.
Byla jednou jedna budoucnost: Podivná reportáž z přítomnosti 1965
In an unspecified town, all the clocks stop one day. A television reporter investigates the cause... Karel Pech and Kateřina Burianová in a fictional dramatic report.
Africa II – From the Equator to Table Mountain
The second part of the film begins with a journey in the equatorial region, where the travelers managed to capture the most typical images of the original Africa. The journey continues to the forests of the Belgian Congo, where they filmed the smallest people in the world, black dwarfs. From Central Africa, they head south through Victoria Falls and the mysterious ruins of a medieval settlement in Zimbabwe. In Johannesburg, they witness a celebration of black gold diggers. Their journey ends at the southernmost tip of Africa under Table Mountain in Cape Town. The end of the film depicts the birth of a volcano shot from close range.
Filmography
as Commentary (voice)
as Commentary (voice)
as Commentary (voice)