Otakar Vávra

Directing

Born February 28, 1911 — Died September 15, 2011

From Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Biography

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 movi...