Otakar Vávra

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 ...

‘The Light Penetrates the Dark (1931)’ was apparently the first work of Czech experimental filmmaker Otakar Vávra, released when he ...

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of his debts. ...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague. Release: We Live in Prague 1934 tt0176342 General: mkv | 175 MB | 00:13:10 Video: 1743 ...

Release: Sokolovo 1975 tt0176160 General: mkv | 1.54 GB | 02:07:03 Video: 1735 Kbps | 1274×554 (2.3:1) | 25.000 fps | AVC Audio 1: AAC at ...

A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title. Release: Romance pro kridlovku 1967 tt0060910 ...

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

Based on the novel by Karel Capek, the prominent Czech writer of the early 20th century who coined the word robot for his play R.U.R., the story ...

“At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav’s kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the ...

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the ...

Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the “Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy”, one of the ...

A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women ...

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 ...