Otakar Vávra — Director (14)
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August Sunday (1961)
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Otakar Vávra actor: Vlasta Fabianová / Karel Höger …
other title: Srpnová neděle
This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local youth meet. As is typical of the works of Hrubín, it is a conflict of youth and age, life and death, represented by the medical student Zuzana and her beloved Jirka.
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Rozina the Love Child (1945)
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Otakar Vávra actor: Marie Glázrová / Zdeněk Štěpánek …
other title: Rozina sebranec / Die Ungeliebte
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
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Oldrich and Bozena (1985)
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奥塔卡·瓦夫拉 actor: 吉里·巴托斯卡 / Ilona Svobodová …
other title: Oldrich a Bozena / 奥尔德里奇和博泽纳 …
"At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Premyslovci and the other clans the main profiteer of this being the German emperor. At that time it seemed as if the Czech state and the lineage of its princes was awaiting its end..." It is with these words that the tale of this film begins, whose narrative is based upon the the play by Frantisek Hrubín of the same name.
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Dark Sun (1980)
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Otakar Vávra actor: Radoslav Brzobohatý / Rudolf Hrušínský …
other title: Dunkle Sonne / Temné slunce …
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his invention’s threat, he fights to prevent its misuse, risking everything to stop those who seek to exploit his epochal discovery.