Otakar Vávra Movies

The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of...

A man returns to his native village in search of renewed faith and his old girlfriend. But she, now a middleaged woman, does not recognise him and he...

Wild Beasts

Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those who in the 1930s determined the pulse of the...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers...

Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday.

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in...

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker...