Otakar Vávra
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Otakar Vávra was a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.
Otakar Vávra in 1980
Witchhammer
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Witchhammer is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra and starring Elo Romančík. Based on the novel Kladivo na čarodějnice by Václav Kaplický, Witchhammer relates the story of the Nor
Otakar Vávra
…1954), Jan Žižka (1955) and Against All (1957). In the 1960s, Vávra made his most celebrated films Zlatá reneta (1965), Romance for Bugle (1966) and Witchhammer (1969). Romance for Bugle was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. In the 1970s Vávra produced…
1970 poster for Otakar Vavra film Witcheshammer
A plaque at the Church of St. Lawrence in Sobotín, Czech Republic, commemorating victims of the Northern Moravia witch trials.