Bohumil Vávra
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Birthday:1916-11-04
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Julek (1980)
The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity...

Hněv (1978)
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...

Settlement of Crows (1978)
First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

House Call (1979)
Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

Past na kachnu (1978)
Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body...

The Secret of Steel City (1979)
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

Město mé naděje (1979)
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...

Drsná Planina (1980)
Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.

Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who...

Luk královny Dorotky (1971)
Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love, the petty and insidious betrayals of trust.

Romaneto (1981)
A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed...

The Death of a Talented Cobbler (1983)
Captain Exner solves another detective mystery - this time while he's on vacation. The most elegant of Czech crime novelists has chosen a quiet town...

Nobody Will Laugh (1966)
A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

Lanfieri Colony (1968)
Horn tries to forget the insult caused to his beloved and builds a hut on an island inhabited by a small colony recently founded by the now drunken...

Holiday for a Dog (1981)
The Mráz family is preparing for holidays. Parents are traveling to the spa and little Petr is going to the country to his grandparents. In...

The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes (1976)
Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to...

Discopříběh (1987)
Jirka Horáček, a teenager living with his father on a Pilsen housing estate, spends his free time at discos with friends. One night he meets...

Jezdec formule risk (1973)
The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.

Chased and Suspected (1979)
Late at night Eva Trojanová returns home to an agitated husband; three days later, her body is found with bruises on her neck. Her spouse,...

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman,...

Dům Na poříčí (1977)
The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

Komediant (1984)
Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and...

Atomová katedrála (1985)
The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the most capable experts. Such is the engineer...

Shades of Fern (1986)
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables...

Your Unknown Brother (1982)
A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has...

Der Mann von der Cap Arcona (1982)
1982: East German actor Erwin Gregorek travels to Hamburg to shoot screen tests for a film about the sinking of the ocean-liner Cap Arcona in 1945 -...

On the Great River (1978)
Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

Next Year at Lake Balaton (1980)
Jonas and Ines are in love and want to spend their vacation together camping on the Baltic coast. But Ines’s narrow-minded parents intervene...

The World Knows Nothing (1988)
The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage is not very lucky and falls...

The Cat Prince (1979)
The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his...

The Damned House of Hajn (1989)
Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady...

Olle Henry (1983)
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...

Chain (1981)
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.

Conversation on a Train (1947)
A Czech public information film, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, on the perils of alcohol and STDs.

Etudes for Piano Students (1987)
Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also...

Le cri coupé (1994)
In 1869, while investigating gruesome murders, a detective allies himself with a success-hungry newspaper editor.

On a Wayward Princess (1987)
Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she...

Sedm hladových (1988)
People can be addicted to things, like high-calorie food. But the struggle against overweight and overeating is often futile, so the unfortunates...

Divoká srdce (1990)
The common theme of the short story film is the famous duels between two important historical figures: Pushkin and Casanova. Pushkin's tragic duel,...

Zvířata ve městě (1989)
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...

Vracenky (1991)
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...

Strange Creatures (1990)
A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

How to Deserve a Princess (1995)
A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

Too Loud A Solitude (1995)
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

The Train of Childhood and Expectation (1989)
A story of a little girl Verka and her life during the beginning of WWII. Based on Vera Sládková novels.