Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
Directed by Karel Vachek
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Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything that advertises itself as certain. The filmmaker sets out for the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Poland, and the Balkans in his sometimes amusing investigation of spiritual substitutes, such as esoteric "teachings” or various fraudulent and magical practices, to which we sometimes fall prey due to our natural religious cravings. In addition to a Czech "prefab” family, who describe the carryings-on of their poltergeist, well-known mystery buffs appear in the film: Erich von Däniken, Raymond Moody Jr., and Ivan Mackerl.
Other films by Karel Vachek
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2019
Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday or the Establishment and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
2006
Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
2003
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
