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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 – 15. září 2011 Praha) 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).
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Mar 1, 2011 · Otakar Vávra was a filmmaking autodidact. As he says in his memoirs, he would see a movie every day, and then transcribed the lines to learn how to write a movie script....
