Zdeněk Vávra Movies

Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.

Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As...

Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another...

The relationship between a teenage daughter and her mother is not an easy time in the life of either of them. But for Jana Burešová and...

Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But their value system is severely skewed, and one of...

A story about a life of a group of children in the foster home.

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...

Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady...

Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the silent, inaccessible man in particular is reluctant...

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

František Cepl is a young man from a simple family. He graduated from a real school and was going to study technology. When the occupation...

In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to...