Bohumil Vávra Movies

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

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,...

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...

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

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...

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

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

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 -...

The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.

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

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

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...

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...

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