- His film At' zije Republika (1965) ("Long Live the Republik") depicted the postwar expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945.
- His politial satire The Ear (1970) ("The Ear"), about the Czech secret police, was banned by the Communist government, but was later rereleased after its downfall in 1989.
- He was part of the Czech wave of liberal filmmakers, in the 1960s, that included Milos Forman and Jirí Menzel.
- Began as a cinematographer and director of documentaries.
- During World War II & the German Occupation of Checkoslovakia, Kachyna was a teenager & like many his own age he had to work In a German Factory.
- During the early 1960s, Kachyna met the Moravian writer Jan Prochazka and their long collaboration together produced many of the key films in Kachyna's oeuvre. - Peter Hames.
- Father of Eliska Nova.
- Karol Kachyna and Jan Prochazka's first film together, Hope (1963), was openly critical of Czechoslovakian society, being a story of a prostitute and an alcoholic, conditions which did not officially exist under communism. - Peter Hames.
- His name is pronounced "Kah-rehl Kakh-eeh-nyah".
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