Bohumil Vávra Movies

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

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

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...

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...

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has...

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

Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.

Jirka Horáček, a teenager living with his father on a Pilsen housing estate, spends his free time at discos with friends. One night he...

Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That...

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

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...

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

Set in a vagabond and petty bourgeois environment, the three stories deal with the pitfalls of love, the petty and insidious betrayals of trust.

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

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...

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

A Nordic tale of human weakness and strength... Young Hjalmar, son of Gunar, lord of the manor, sets out on a long journey to meet the Queen of the...