Zdeněk Vávra Movies

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...