Otakar Vávra Movies

Shown in Cannes 1946.

Zdenek Pešánek created the first public kinetic sculpture, for the power station in Prague. This short experimental film focuses on a...

Wild Beasts

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...

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that...

Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre,...

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

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...

Year of the Revolution 1848

A man and a woman meet on the streetcar. Six years ago, they were close . . .

"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name

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...

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.