Antonín Kachlík Wife, Who Is Kvetoslava Houdlová?

Antonin Kachlik was a Czech film director and screenwriter who directed 21 films between 1948 and 1987. In 1973, he was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.

He served in the military in the basic training program from 1952 to 1954. He also married actress Kvra Houdlová at the time. He had to wait a long time before he could begin making films.

Antonín Kachlík and his wife, Kvetoslava Houdlová

He began his career as an assistant director, working with filmmakers Josef Mach and Boivoj Zeman.

In 1961, he made his cinematic debut with The June Days, a picture based on his own screenplay. The next year, he released his own film, There Were Ten of Us.

Both of these screenplays were also released as books by him. Antonin Kachlk is also the director of the critically praised 1969 film I, the Mournful God, based on a Milan Kundera novella that was eventually banned.

During the normalization period, he directed The Twenty-Ninth, a biographical film on communist leader Klement Gottwald for which he is still being chastised today.

His name has also been added to the list of collaborators with the StB State Police since that time. Kachlk did not work as a film director after 1988. He taught at FAMU from 1971 to 1992.