Otakar Vávra

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Personal Info

Known for

Directing

From

Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]

Born

2/28/1911

Age

114

Credit(s)

6

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 movie scripts. In 1931, he produced the experimental f ...Show More