Otakar Vávra Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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...

Venice Film Festival 1939

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...

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...

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

Wild Beasts

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

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

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