Otakar Vávra Movies

Young doctor Hájek has been looking for a job for a long time in vain. But luck has smiled on him a little - he has won a competition for 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 remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon...

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...

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...

The years 1851-1856: events from the life of the writer Božena Němcová, who, because of her free-thinking views and strong patriotic...

A village drama about the tragic culmination of a forced marriage. The film was financed by a Brno company, which required interventions in the...

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

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...

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.

A daughter of a celebrity family experiences a holiday adventure with a mysterious young man. Though she is strongly attracted to him, she is also...

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

The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s - a time when the poor...

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 unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to abandon his studies and entered the...

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

A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title.

An adventure story for young people set in a summer camp for boaters in Juná. Eda, marked by a tragic experience of occupation, has difficulty...

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