Otakar Vávra Movies

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

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

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

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...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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