# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-vachek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:20:57.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-vachek"
name: "Karel Vachek"
slug: "karel-vachek"
description: "Karel Vachek was a Czech documentary film director and film pedagogue at FAMU."
tagline: "Czech director and university educator (1940–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karel_Vachek.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1940-08-04"
deathDate: "2020-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.067746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 242
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882899/"
    handle:    "nm0882899"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.karelvachek.cz/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Vachek"
    title: "Karel Vachek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Vachek"
    title: "Karel Vachek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Vachek"
    title: "Karel Vachek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Vachek"
    title: "Karel Vachek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karel_Vachek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12028573"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303625"
    title: "Karel Vachek"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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