Otakar Vávra Movies

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...

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 it...

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...