Otakar Vávra

Um inquisidor implacável transforma as superstições dos camponeses locais em heresia religiosa, encontrando motivos para acusar dezenas de homens e...

23 de jan. de 1970

Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous w...

29 de abr. de 1955

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Pra...

06 de mai. de 1977

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

09 de mai. de 1975

In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchi...

09 de abr. de 1948

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

05 de fev. de 1956

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.

19 de set. de 1980

Filmed during the Nazi occupation, this panoramic drama set in a Prague department store follows the divergent destinies of four female coworkers, ...

25 de dez. de 1943

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

04 de out. de 1957

20 de fev. de 1959

Emperor Francis Joseph I is about to arrive in Prague, and among those who came to Stromovka to welcome him is Veronika Pavlitová. She wants to sub...

01 de mai. de 1986

Shown in Cannes 1946.

06 de set. de 1946

Wild Beasts

30 de abr. de 1948

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocri...

27 de jan. de 1978

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

27 de abr. de 1973

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 mai...

01 de ago. de 1985

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 ...

29 de set. de 1961

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

01 de mai. de 1953

28 de set. de 1951

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

27 de ago. de 1948

01 de out. de 1983

08 de mar. de 1963

17 de out. de 1941

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

03 de mar. de 1967

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

13 de fev. de 1930

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

25 de out. de 1940

25 de dez. de 1935

21 de mai. de 1948

03 de dez. de 1937

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

06 de mai. de 1949

26 de jun. de 1936

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 (Lud...

22 de dez. de 1950

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking ...

16 de set. de 1938

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

01 de jan. de 1935

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 yo...

12 de mai. de 1961

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

01 de out. de 1984

23 de set. de 1949

30 de ago. de 1940

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, w...

09 de nov. de 1936

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

29 de dez. de 1989

30 de ago. de 1935

19 de fev. de 1960

16 de dez. de 1960

Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family...

24 de fev. de 1937

Venice Film Festival 1939

11 de ago. de 1939

A man returns to his native village in search of renewed faith and his old girlfriend. But she, now a middleaged woman, does not recognise him and ...

22 de out. de 1965

23 de nov. de 1948

06 de nov. de 1942

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

14 de dez. de 1945

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

26 de jan. de 1940

23 de nov. de 1945

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 the ...

04 de nov. de 1937

07 de jan. de 1949

Year of the Revolution 1848

23 de dez. de 1949

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

05 de nov. de 1937

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 cult...

01 de nov. de 2002

23 de out. de 1936

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

24 de set. de 1954

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 t...

19 de jan. de 1937

17 de fev. de 1933

When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.

21 de nov. de 1939

25 de dez. de 1942

30 de dez. de 1949

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 worke...

17 de fev. de 1950

08 de nov. de 1935

Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the tw...

25 de abr. de 1969

25 de set. de 1936

13 de jul. de 1934

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 ...

25 de dez. de 1947

01 de set. de 1933

01 de mar. de 1935

11 de out. de 1940

31 de dez. de 1931

31 de dez. de 1930