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Otakar Vávra
Born February 28, 1911 Died September 15, 2011 (Age 100)Hradec Králové, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]167 Credits
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 film Světlo proniká tmou. The first movie he directed was 1937's Panens…
