Otakar Vávra Movies
- 1977
The Liberation of Prague
The Liberation of Prague21977HD
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...
- 1955
Jan Hus
Jan Hus61955HD
Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most...
- 1948
Krakatit
Krakatit6.51948HD
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of...
- 1949
Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“
Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“7.11949HD
- 1943
Happy Journey
Happy Journey51943HD
Filmed during the Nazi occupation, this panoramic drama set in a Prague department store follows the divergent destinies of four female coworkers,...
- 1973
Days of Betrayal
Days of Betrayal51973HD
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...
- 1970
Witchhammer
Witchhammer7.71970HD
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...
- 1957
Against All
Against All5.51957HD
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...
- 1956
Jan Žižka
Jan Žižka6.51956HD
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.
- 1938
The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins
The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins6.51938HD
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...
- 2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel6.52018HD
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...
- 1939
Humoreska
Humoreska61939HD
Venice Film Festival 1939
- 1951
Posel úsvitu
Posel úsvitu61951HD
- 1975
Sokolovo
Sokolovo41975HD
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...
- 1939
The Magic House
The Magic House61939HD
When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.
- 1961
August Sunday
August Sunday41961HD
This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local...
- 1980
Dark Sun
Dark Sun4.81980HD
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
- 1965
Golden Queen
Golden Queen6.51965HD
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...
- 1954
Shoesmachine
Shoesmachine01954HD
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.
- 1985
Oldrich and Bozena
Oldrich and Bozena31985HD
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the other clans the...