Zdeněk Vávra Movies

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,...

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

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

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

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

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

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

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

In 1781, Countess Marie Karolina shelters an influential Abbé, a former Jesuit who vehemently opposes progress. Only Dr. Kamenický...

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...

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...

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