Zdeněk Vávra Movies

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

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.

Shortly after the Velvet Revolution, everyone becomes an entrepreneur. The fields of business vary. Whether they are legal forms or, on the contrary,...

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...

The war will also affect children's games. The children hide a French boy who has managed to escape from a prison transport. Language differences...

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

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...

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...

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

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