Otakar Vávra

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

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

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

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

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

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Venice Film Festival 1939

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

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

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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...

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

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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...

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The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...

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"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name

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