Otakar Vávra Movies

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

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

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,...

Year of the Revolution 1848

Shown in Cannes 1946.

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...

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...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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