David Vávra

Acting

David Vávra

Born 1957-03-09

Acting credits

Mlýny poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mlýny

1994

No artwork available
NR

A short parody of Japanese samurai films...

Zákon samurajů

1996

Kašpárek poster
5.0

A young man is enchanted by a beautiful girl and does everything he can to impress her. However, he doesn't understand that she is just making a fool of him for fun.

Kašpárek

1996

Out of the City poster
5.7

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

Out of the City

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Míč

1991

Prague Five poster
7.6

Director Tomáš Vorel created his experimental feature debut with members of renowned Prague non-traditional auteur theaters. The ensembles presented their own poetics and style through five "short stories" connected by satirical commentary by the "expert" Dr. Milan Šteindler, CSc.

Prague Five

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chemikál

1986

Chalet for sale poster
4.0

When nostalgia makes her rethink the sale of her family cottage, a woman cajoles her husband and loved ones into one last getaway.

Chalet for sale

2018

Traps poster
5.1

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.

Traps

1998

A Colourful Dream poster
5.0

With humor our adventure story deals with the timeless theme of the conflict between unlimited power on the one hand, and the desire for freedom, courage and love on the other. A troupe of buskers lands on an island governed by a despotic ruler with strict police control. When, during their performance, a shot fired from a circus cannon goes astray, it triggers a series of unexpected events. A young man and woman, Drin and Tuvi, and Nathan the seagull have to enter into an uneven struggle with totalitarian power. A struggle which eventually changes the fates of all the island inhabitants - both human and feathered.

A Colourful Dream

2024

The Smoke poster
6.8

The film is based on a legendary school film of Tomáš Vorel, called INg (1985). The storyline stays the same - a young engineer finds a new job and wants to work, this proves to be impossible in the last days of the communist era.

The Smoke

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vltava hraje k volbám

1990

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

„Zavřeno pro rodinný smutek“

1995

No artwork available
10.0

A series of performances by the Sklep theater.

Multicar Movie Show

1998

No artwork available
NR

A series of theater performances in the basement.

Pumelice lesní moudrosti

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

War with the Newts

2026

Česká soda poster
9.0

This sharp Czech soda first appeared on Czech Television screens on June 4, 1993, and for four years it fundamentally changed the concept of Czech television satire and pushed the boundaries of viewer tolerance into completely unprecedented, uncomfortable zones. The feature film summarized the most vivid episodes of the show and still feels like an uncompromising, comprehensive punch to the solar plexus.

Česká soda

1998

Hřmění divadla Sklep poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hřmění divadla Sklep

2000

A Hoof Here, a Hoof There poster
5.8

A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and no-strings sexual adventures. Auditor Pepe, vet Dědek and restaurant manager František are financially secure and enjoy life with their similarly fun-loving girlfriends—at least until the moment when the brash Pepe collapses and ends up in hospital.

A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

1989

Stone Bridge poster
4.5

A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with a commerce driven world he no longer wants to participate in.

Stone Bridge

1996

To the Woods poster
5.8

Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he’s settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, cutting wood to sell and assisting the foresters. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of various mind-altering plants and mushrooms, which leads to conflict with the old inhabitants and eventually with drug enforcement. Daughter Anyna attends a distant school where her grades deteriorate as she wanders the woods learning from nature rather than from her textbooks.

To the Woods

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Putování Davida Vávry ve vlastních stopách

2017

The Gnome poster
6.1

A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking plant, mom is a checker at a supermarket. The daughter is at odds with her homeroom teacher, while the son - a vegetarian, anarchist, and avid pothead - is apprenticing as a butcher to please his father. The kid's in hot water with both his forewoman and the police. But dad isn't much of an example, letting himself be tempted by the charms of a lovely young butcher. However much mom tries - visiting the beauty parlor, her psychologist, or even the confessional - her husband shows his interest by moving out. Mom plots revenge. And somehow an imp gets mixed up in it all

The Gnome

2005

No artwork available
9.0

A naive village girl, Valentýna, arrives in Prague and, under dramatic circumstances, becomes reluctantly entangled in the Karlín underworld as a novice prostitute controlled by the slimy gangster Pavouk and his bumbling henchman Milan. She repeatedly refuses the genuine support offered by the incorruptible mounted policeman Viktor Sokol, even as two eccentric observers serve as a choric commentary on the absurdities around them. Through parodic and poetic scenes, ranging from western-inspired mounted police sequences to a surreal “war” over exporting plastic gnomes, the film satirizes contemporary Czech society.

1996

Behind the camera