Otakar Vávra
Directing · Creative Producer · Director · Screenplay
Born Feb 28, 1911 · Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
Active 1930–2011 · Awards: Národní umělec, Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class, Artis Bohemiae Amicis Medal, Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film, Ehrenschild des Protektorats Böhmen und Mähren, Order of the Republic, Annual award ACFK
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.
Filmography
Moje Praha (2002) — Director · Story · ScreenplayWitchhammer (1970) — Director · ScreenplayThe Night Guest (1961) — Screenplay · DirectorJan Žižka (1956) — Creative Producer · Story · Screenplay · DirectorShoesmachine (1954) — ScreenplayPosel úsvitu (1951) — Creative ProducerLáska (1950) — Director · ScreenplayYear of the Revolution 1848 (1949) — Creative Producer · Story · ScreenplayHostinec „U kamenného stolu“ (1949) — Creative Producer · Story · ScreenplayNa dobré stopě (1949) — Creative ProducerKrakatit (1948) — Creative Producer · Director · ScreenplayWild Beasts (1948) — Creative ProducerVlast vítá (1945) — Director · Screenplay · StoryThe Masked Lover (1940) — Director · ScreenplayMay Fairy Tale (1940) — Director · ScreenplayHumoreska (1939) — Director · ScreenplayMorality Above All Else (1937) — ScreenplayCamel Through The Eye Of A Needle (1937) — Director · ScreenplayPassage in the Paradise (1936) — Screenplay · StoryUličnice (1936) — ScreenplayThree Men in the Snow (1936) — ScreenplayVdavky Nanynky Kulichovy (1935) — ScreenplayWe Live in Prague (1934) — Director · Story · Screenplay · EditorSvítání (1933) — Screenplay