Otakar Vávra Movies

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František...

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon...

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

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

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

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

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

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...

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...

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...

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous...

The imperial councilor Ullik decides to modernize his old mills by installing a new turbine. His eccentric brother-in-law Artuš tries to...

The stuffed animal dealer Václav Barvínek spent twenty-four hours in prison for a petty dispute. And that very day, his uncle's will...

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...

Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and...

Even the pre-Blohemian times were not idyllic. Even a bachelor, invited by the consuls to Rakovník to elevate the local education system,...

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

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

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