Věra Chytilová
Directing
Biography
Věra Chytilová was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. At the age of 28 she was accepted into the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). While attending FAMU she studied underneath renowned film director Otakar Vavra, graduating in 1962. Chytilová is best known for her once highly controversial film Sedmikrásky (Daisies) – (1966). Daisies is known for its un-sympathetic characters, lack of a continuous narrative and abrupt visual sty…
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The Emperor and the Golem
1952
First Handmaiden
Pravda
1970
Self (uncredited)
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
1984
Ceiling
1962
Model (voice)
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
Self
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
Self
Konec jasnovidce
1957
Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová
2004
Herself
Caterwauling
1960
Cat (voice)
Searching for Ester
2005
Herself
Chytilová Versus Forman
1982
Self