Otakar Vávra Movies

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

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

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

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 he...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

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...

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...

Venice Film Festival 1939

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...

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...

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...

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...

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