Otakar Vávra Movies

The story of a janitor's daughter who married into a "better man". Obedient to her mother and eager to "rise up" herself, Nanynka did everything she...

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

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

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...

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

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

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...

In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison....

Dvořák's well-known composition reappears again and again in the serious moments of the lives of the father and son Hupeks - talented...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...

A poor dog catcher in Prague takes up an orphan's boy who finds his favorite bull with him, with himself, until both find a better home, finally,...

Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon-keeping and also, for many years, Ruzenka...

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...

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the...

The new era brings with it progress, which must inevitably penetrate even the most remote corners. It has also reached the village of...

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