Otakar Vávra Movies

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

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,...

Venice Film Festival 1939

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

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 remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.

Wild Beasts

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...

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...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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...

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...

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.

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

Shown in Cannes 1946.