Otakar Vávra Movies

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...

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...

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

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the...

A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.

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

Shown in Cannes 1946.

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...

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

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...