Bohumil Vávra Movies

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu, based on the works of...

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

Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

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

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...

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

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

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

Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also...