A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title. Read More »
Tag Archives: Otakar Vávra
May Fairytale / Pohádka máje (1940) Otakar Vávra, Filip Balek-Brodský, Svatopluk Benes, Marie Blazková
Otakar Vávra turned to Mrštík’s love novel, which had already served Read More »
Jan Hus (1954) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Karel Höger, Vlasta Matulová
1412 – 1415: Master Jan Hus in his sermons in the Bethlehem Chapel denounces plague the church organization. Read More »
Witches’ Hammer / Kladivo na carodejnice (1970) Otakar Vávra, Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. Read More »
Virginity AKA Panenství (1937) Otakar Vávra, Lída Baarová, Jaroslava Skorkovská, Frantisek Kreuzmann
Young and stunningly beautiful Hana is thrown into the street after her mother catches her stepfather sexually harassing Hana. Read More »
Against All AKA Proti všem (1958) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Gustav Hilmar, Vlasta Matulová
After the battle of Sudom?? the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the fortification of Tábor. Read More »
The Merry Wives (1939) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Kreuzmann, Adina Mandlová
Czech filmmaker Otakar Vavra truly came into his own with his third feature Read More »
Jan Zizka (1957) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Horák, Karel Höger, Drama, War
1419: The atmosphere in Prague after Hus’ death is very tense. Several rebels are prisoned and radical priest Jan Zelivský leads large masses of people to the Old Town’s council house occupied by corrupt councillors, where the prisoners are kept. Read More »