# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-smyczek
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:32:40.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-smyczek"
name: "Karel Smyczek"
slug: "karel-smyczek"
description: "Karel Smyczek is a Czech film director, actor and screenwriter. His film Why? was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival."
tagline: "Czech actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karel_Smyczek_2013.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.52
  momentum:             0.4081632653061225
  historical:           7.268502666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810747/"
    handle:    "nm0810747"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karel_Smyczek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كاريل سميكزيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Smyczek"
    title: "Karel Smyczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Smyczek"
    title: "Karel Smyczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Smyczek"
    title: "Karel Smyczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%86%DA%A9"
    title: "کارل اسمیچک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Smyczek"
    title: "Karel Smyczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Smyczek"
    title: "Karel Smyczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6369376"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/582340"
    title: "Karel Smyczek"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump