Otakar Vávra Movies

Venice Film Festival 1939

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

Shown in Cannes 1946.

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

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

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...

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...

Year of the Revolution 1848

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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

Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family...

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