Best movies of Otakar Vávra

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Josef Kemr, Elo Romancik, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Janusz Strachocki, Zuzana Cigánová, Stefan Kvietik,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

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

Actors : Kveta Fialová, Marie Brozová, Vlastimil Brodský, Krzysztof Chamiec,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

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

Actors : Jaroslav Radimecky, Bohus Pastorek, Gunnar Möller, Jirí Pleskot,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

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

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Frantisek Vicena, Josef Vetrovec, Ota Sklencka,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

I. 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 Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State...

Actors : Jirí Bartoska, Václav Babka, Jana Brezková, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

It's Christmas Eve of 1861. So far unsuccessful poet, but already renown journalist - twenty-seven-year old Jan Neruda (Jirí Bartoska) - calls on the family of professor Muzák (Jirí Pleskot...

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jana Brezková, András Bálint, Jozef Adamovic,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

A remake of the 1948 atomic-age film, "Krakatit", by the same director. A scrupulous scientist is in the throes of a serious ethical dilemma after creating a highly-efficient explosive which may bring immeasurable suffering to mankind.

Actors : Jana Brezinová, Marta Vancurová, Zuzana Cigánová, Ladislav Chudík,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

The dramatic story of Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th century Christian hero and a testimony of the persistence of Christian courage.