Věra Chytilová
Directing
Born: 1929-02-02 · Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Died: 2014-03-12
Biography
Věra Chytilová (February 2, 1929 – March 12, 2014) 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 continuo
🎬 Movies (30)
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
Self
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
Self
Naughty Young People: Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová
2012
Troublemakers
2007
Director
Pleasant Moments
2006
Director
Searching for Ester
2005
Director
Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová
2004
Herself
Trója v proměnách času
2003
Director
Expulsion from Paradise
2001
Director
Traps
1998
Director
Kam panenky...
1993
Director
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday
1992
Director
My Pragues Understand Me
1991
Director
TGM the Liberator
1990
Director
A Hoof Here, a Hoof There
1989
Director
The Jester and the Queen
1988
Director
Wolf's Hole
1987
Director
Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe
1985
Director
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
1984
Director
Calamity
1982
Director
Chytilová Versus Forman
1981
Director
Panelstory or Birth of a Community
1981
Director
The Apple Game
1978
Director
Time is inexorable
1978
Director
Comrades
1971
Director
Pravda
1970
Self (uncredited)
Fruit of Paradise
1970
Director
Seven Days to Remember
1968
Cinematography
An Occasion to Speak
1966
Self
Daisies
1966
Director