Bohumil Vávra Movies

A Czech public information film, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, on the perils of alcohol and STDs.

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

In 1869, while investigating gruesome murders, a detective allies himself with a success-hungry newspaper editor.

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...

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...

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

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.

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

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...

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 story of a Czech national revivalist, writer and author of a famous cookbook... The story takes us to Litomyšl in 1836. The local...

A fairy tale about Petr the coal miner and Sklenáříček the elf... You may find it incomprehensible that someone could crave...

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...

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...

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

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...