Bohumil Vávra Movies

Jirka Horáček, a teenager living with his father on a Pilsen housing estate, spends his free time at discos with friends. One night he...

The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the most capable experts. Such is the engineer...

Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's...

1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the former boxer Henry. Being together gives them a...

A Nordic tale of human weakness and strength... Young Hjalmar, son of Gunar, lord of the manor, sets out on a long journey to meet the Queen of the...

In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes...

The juxtaposition of animals locked in cages in a zoo and people shackled by the confinement of the city has not lost its impact to this day. The...

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral...

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That...

The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.

Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love, the petty and insidious betrayals of trust.

The eighteen-year-old young man will one day make a living as a shoemaker, but his greatest love is hang gliding, for which he is willing to...