Otakar Vávra

Vlast vítá

Otakar Vávra, J. A. Holman

Edvard Beneš, Ladislav Boháč

Cesta k barikádám

Otakar Vávra

Jindřich Elbl

Witchhammer

Otakar Vávra

Vladimír Šmeral, Elo Romančík

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

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Jiří Menzel, Antonín Máša

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 acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

Listopad

Otakar Vávra

Jiřina Čermáková, Fritz Klippel

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

Přijdu hned

Otakar Vávra

Saša Rašilov, Vlasta Matulová

Šťastnou cestu

Otakar Vávra

Adina Mandlová, Jiřina Štěpničková

Filmed during the Nazi occupation, this panoramic drama set in a Prague department store follows the divergent destinies of four female coworkers, each of whom seeks happiness in a different way.

Pátrání po Ester

Věra Chytilová

Ester Krumbachová, Věra Chytilová

Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as O slavnosti a hostech (1966), Sedmikrásky (1966), Vsichni dobrí rodáci (1969), Pension pro svobodné pány (1968), Valerie a týden divu (1970), Slamený klobouk (1972) and many others. In the 1960s, she was a 'pivot' of the art scene in Prague, attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career, just setting out to find their own form of self-realization. Those who underwent her tutelage remember her forever. Director Vera Chytilová talks to those who knew Ester Krumbachová, who worked with her, befriended her, loved her. She sets off on a search that is to end by answering the question: Who was Ester?

Dívka v modrém

Otakar Vávra

Lída Baarová, Oldřich Nový

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

Krakatit

Otakar Vávra

Karel Höger, Florence Marly

In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed into the hands of anarchists.

Romance for Bugle

Otakar Vávra

Jaromír Hanzlík, Zuzana Cigánová

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

Cech panen kutnohorských

Otakar Vávra

Zdeněk Štěpánek, Ladislav Pešek

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 to the poor.

Nezbedný bakalář

Otakar Vávra

Zdeněk Štěpánek, Vlasta Matulová

Shown in Cannes 1946.

Noční host

Otakar Vávra

Jiří Vala, Martin Růžek

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 a concentration camp during WWII.

Jan Hus

Otakar Vávra

Zdeněk Štěpánek, Karel Höger

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 famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).

Jan Žižka

Otakar Vávra

Zdeněk Štěpánek, František Horák

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.