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Otakar Vávra (28 February 1911 – 15 September 2011) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.
Otakar Vávra (28. února 1911 Hradec Králové [2] – 15. září 2011 Praha [3]) byl český filmový režisér, scenárista a pedagog. Mezi jeho významná režijní díla patří filmy husitské trilogie Jan Hus, Jan Žižka a Proti všem (1954–1956), Romance pro křídlovku (1966) a Kladivo na čarodějnice (1969).
Sep 16, 2011 · Czech director and teacher Otakar Vavra, whose students included One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest director Milos Forman, has died in Prague aged 100. Vavra directed more than 50 films from...
Feb 20, 2022 · For Otakar Vávra’s reputation as “the father of Czech cinema” is intimately linked, not only to his career as a filmmaker and screenwriter, but above all to his pedagogical legacy.
Oct 22, 2011 · Otakar Vavra, film director and teacher: born Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia 28 February 1911; partner to Jitka Nemcova; died Prague 15 September 2011.
Otakar Vávra. (*1911) Czech Republic. Lifetime achievements. This legendary film director graduated from a secondary school in Hradec Králová and began studying architecture in Prague. However, he ended up not completing his studies and began to fully pursue film shooting.
Sep 15, 2011 · Ve věku 100 let zemřel včera nejstarší žijící český režisér Otakar Vávra. Režisér před nedávnem podstoupil operaci zlomeniny krčku, kterou si přivodil krátce po jarních oslavách svého významného…
Mar 1, 2011 · Otakar Vávra. Czech film director Otakar Vávra celebrated his 100th birthday on Monday. In his extraordinary career, Mr Vávra made over 50 movies, enjoyed by audiences in all of the regimes...
Otakar Vávra was born on 28 February 1911 in Hradec Kralove, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for Witchhammer (1970), Romance pro kridlovku (1967) and Dny zrady (1973). He died on 15 September 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Otakar Vávra 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.
