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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 becau…
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- Golden Sixties (2009) as Self
- GENUS (1995) Director
- Witchhammer (1970) Director
- Happy Journey (1943) Director
- Silent Barricade (1949) Creative Producer
- May Fairy Tale (1940) Director
- Sokolovo (1975) Director
- History of Philosophy (1937) Director
- Listopad (1935) Director
- Svítání (1933) Screenplay
- Humoreska (1939) Director
- Vlast vítá (1945) Director
- The Masked Lover (1940) Director
- Romance for Bugle (1967) Director
- The Light Penetrates the Dark (1931) Director
- Krakatit (1948) Creative Producer
- The Musician (1948) Creative Producer
- Turbina (1941) Director
- Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval (1985) as Self - Audience Member
- Days of Betrayal (1973) Director
- A Story of Love and Honor (1978) Director
- Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky (1949) Creative Producer
- Láska (1950) Director
- Shoesmachine (1954) Screenplay
- The Merry Wives (1938) Director
- The Liberation of Prague (1977) Director
- Morality Above All Else (1937) Screenplay
- Putování Jana Amose (1983) Director
- Jan Hus (1955) Story
- Moje Praha (2002) Director
- Virginity (1937) Director
- A Little Street in Paradise (1936) Writer
- Dva ohně (1950) Creative Producer
- The Great Movie Robbery (1987) Cast
- Dark Sun (1980) Director
- Okouzlená (1942) Director
- The Girl in Blue (1940) Director
- Presentiment (1947) Creative Producer
- Against All (1957) Director
- Jan Žižka (1956) Creative Producer
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