Otakar Vávra
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 28, 1911, Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
- Died
- September 15, 2011
- Movies
- 76
Otakar Vávra (28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.
Vávra attended universities in Brno and Prague, where he studied architecture. During 1929–30, while still a student, he participated in the making of a handful of documentaries and wrote movie scripts. In 1931, he produced the experimental film Světlo proniká tmou. The first movie he directed was 1937's Panenství.
His 1938 film The Merry Wives was praised in Variety for "first-rate direction, a salty yarn and elaborate production effort", even though it had undergone certain cuts because it was considered too "ribald" by American censors.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2018 | CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel | Self |
| 2005 | Searching for Ester | Himself |
| 2002 | Moje Praha | Self |
| 1987 | The Great Movie Robbery | |
| 1985 | Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval | Self - Audience Member |
| 1958 | A Box of Film | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2002 | Moje Praha | Director, Screenplay |
| 1989 | Evropa tančila valčík | Director |
| 1986 | Veronika | Screenplay, Director |
| 1985 | Oldrich and Bozena | Director, Screenplay |
| 1984 | Komediant | Screenplay, Director |
| 1983 | Putování Jana Amose | Director, Screenplay |
| 1980 | Dark Sun | Director, Screenplay |
| 1978 | A Story of Love and Honor | Director, Screenplay |
| 1977 | The Liberation of Prague | Director, Screenplay |
| 1975 | Sokolovo | Director, Screenplay |
| 1973 | Days of Betrayal | Director, Screenplay |
| 1970 | Witchhammer | Director, Screenplay |
| 1969 | The Thirteenth Chamber | Screenplay, Director |
| 1967 | Romance for Bugle | Director, Screenplay |
| 1965 | Golden Queen | Screenplay, Director |
| 1963 | Horoucí srdce | Screenplay, Director |
| 1961 | The Night Guest | Screenplay, Director |
| 1961 | August Sunday | Director, Screenplay |
| 1961 | Policejní hodina | Screenplay, Director |
| 1960 | Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek | Screenplay, Director |
| 1960 | První parta | Screenplay, Director |
| 1959 | Občan Brych | Screenplay, Director |
| 1957 | Against All | Director, Screenplay |
| 1956 | Jan Žižka | Screenplay, Director |
| 1955 | Jan Hus | Screenplay, Director |
| 1954 | Shoesmachine | Screenplay |
| 1953 | Nástup | Director, Screenplay |
| 1950 | Láska | Director, Screenplay |
| 1949 | Year of the Revolution 1848 | Screenplay |
| 1949 | Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“ | Screenplay |
| 1949 | Silent Barricade | Screenplay, Director |
| 1948 | Krakatit | Director, Screenplay |
| 1947 | Presentiment | Director, Screenplay |
| 1946 | The Adventurous Bachelor | Director, Screenplay |
| 1946 | Cesta k barikádám | Director, Screenplay |
| 1945 | Rozina the Love Child | Director, Screenplay |
| 1945 | Vlast vítá | Screenplay, Director |
| 1945 | Návrat presidenta dr. Edvarda Beneše do Prahy 16. května 1945 | Director, Screenplay |
| 1943 | Happy Journey | Director, Screenplay |
| 1942 | Přijdu hned | Director, Screenplay |
| 1942 | Okouzlená | Director, Screenplay |
| 1941 | Turbina | Screenplay, Director |
| 1940 | May Fairy Tale | Director, Screenplay |
| 1940 | The Masked Lover | Screenplay, Director |
| 1940 | Pacientka dr. Hegla | Director, Screenplay |
| 1940 | The Girl in Blue | Director, Screenplay |
| 1939 | The Magic House | Director, Screenplay |
| 1939 | Humoreska | Director, Screenplay |
| 1938 | The Merry Wives | Director, Screenplay |
| 1938 | Její pastorkyně | Screenplay |
| 1937 | Hlídač č. 47 | Screenplay |
| 1937 | History of Philosophy | Director, Screenplay |
| 1937 | Virginity | Director, Screenplay |
| 1937 | Morality Above All Else | Screenplay |
| 1937 | Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle | Director, Screenplay |
| 1936 | A Little Street in Paradise | Writer |
| 1936 | Uličnice | Screenplay |
| 1936 | Passage in the Paradise | Screenplay |
| 1936 | Three Men in the Snow | Screenplay |
| 1935 | Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy | Screenplay |
| 1935 | Listopad | Director, Screenplay |
| 1935 | Bezdětná | Screenplay |
| 1935 | The Eleventh Commandment | Screenplay |
| 1935 | Maryša | Screenplay |
| 1934 | We Live in Prague | Director, Screenplay |
| 1933 | Svítání | Screenplay |
| 1933 | Ze světa lesních samot | Screenplay |
| 1931 | The Light Penetrates the Dark | Director, Screenplay |
| 1931 | Modern shoe production | Director |
| 1930 | The Bať family's trip to Yugoslavia | Director |
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