Miloš Vávra Movies

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the...

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...

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

Even great love does not necessarily overcome a difference of morals - although the young hero is very much in love, he still rejects the comfortable...

A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

A thrilling detective story based on a short story by writer Hana Prošková takes place shortly after the war in a castle, where a group...

We meet Veronica shortly before her high-school graduation exams. She lives with her mother, an alcoholic, and her mother's partner. One day when he...

On the night it happened, Aleš Berka was celebrating his 50th birthday. A successful, mature man at the peak of his powers. Congratulations,...

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

Nineteen-year-old Pavel Kříž spends all his free time in Prague's arcades, bistros and discos with a group of thieves called Roby....

Criminal comedy, a second movie from the "Chief" series.

Lying in the construction industry used to be a criminal offence, but skilful people could do a lot of things. This somewhat embarrassing tragicomedy...

It's New Year's Eve afternoon and Honza, Jana and Zdeněk decide to go out into the karst area. Despite the express ban, one of them goes down...

Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who live in the house opposite. The old sisters have...

In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing search for life orientation, the difficult entry...