Otakar Vávra Movies

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.

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

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

Shown in Cannes 1946.

Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre,...

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...

Wild Beasts

Twelve-year old Kosta, a little boy of an overactive imagination, makes friends with equally sensitive eleven-year old Blanka. Fantasy leads the two...

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...

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,...