Otakar Vávra
Czech film director, director, scriptwriter and university educator (1911–2011)
0.75body-of-work score · ranked #1140 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- February 28, 1911 · Hradec Králové
- Died
- September 15, 2011 · Prague
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, pedagogue, director
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.751 citation
Complete filmography
All 38 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1930The Light Penetrates the Dark
- 1937Camel Through the Eye of a Needle
- 1937Filosofská historie
- 1937Virginity
- 1938The Merry Wives
- 1939Humoreska
- 1939The Magic House
- 1940Dívka v modrém
- 1940Pacientka Dr. Hegla
- 1940Pohádka máje
- 1940The Masked Lover
- 1941Turbina
- 1942Enchanted
- 1942I'll Be Right Over
- 1943Happy Journey
- 1945Rozina sebranec
- 1946The Adventurous Bachelor
- 1947Premonition
- 1948Krakatit
- 1949Silent Barricade
- 1953Nástup
- 1954Jan Hus
- 1955Jan Žižka
- 1956Against All
- 1958Občan Brych
- 1959První parta
- 1961The Night Guest
- 1965Golden Queen
- 1967Romance for Bugle
- 1970Witchhammer
- 1973Days of Betrayal
- 1974Sokolovo
- 1977Osvobození Prahy
- 1980Dark Sun
- 1983Jan Amos Comenius
- 1985Veronika
- —Moje Praha
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