Dobové tance kolem života a díla Otakara Vávry
Period dances around the life and works of Otakar Vávra

Summary/Abstract: No one of Czech filmmakers have been treated so abusively as a veteran director Otakar Vávra, constantly accused of being active in every regime of Czech modern history. The polemics concerned Vávra’s work went on from his beginnings of the early thirties – he was admired for his perfectionalism and questioned for “cool intellectualism”. The crucial point came during the fifties: as the most influential member of the leading team of Barrandov Studios he probably took part in breaking the film career of talented stage director Alfréd Radok and made his “Hussite trilogy” as a precursor of historical epic movies cultivated in Central and Eastern European cinemas lately – from the early sixties to conteporary times. Unfortunately, Czech critics don’t respect this genre so much and the clichés of Otakar Vávra as “Salieri of Czech cinema” and the author of good made, sometimes succesfull but not very valuable movies are still surviving.

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