Movies: Věra Chytilová
- 1966
Daisies (1966)
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Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them....
- 1963
A Bagful of Fleas (1963)
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The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women finding freedom and joy amid the rigid conformity of life in a communal factory dormitory....
- 1970
Fruit of Paradise (1970)
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An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence....
- 1952
The Emperor and the Golem (1952)
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The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, wh...
- 1963
Something Different (1963)
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In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling ...
- 1987
Wolf's Hole (1987)
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Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors....
- 1982
Calamity (1982)
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Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver....
- 1992
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)
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Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus sets out to tour his new empire, insulting everyone on the way....
- 1955
Hudba z Marsu (1955)
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- 1957
Lost Children (1957)
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Lost Children (Czech: Ztracenci) is a Czechoslovak war film directed by Miloš Makovec. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival....
- 2001
Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
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Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at...
- 2005
Searching for Ester (2005)
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Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as O slavnosti a hostech (1966), Sedmikrásky...
- 1962
Ceiling (1962)
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The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is most...
- 1981
Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1981)
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An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which he is supposed to be moving with his daughter's family. The old granddad from the countryside likes...
- 1978
The Apple Game (1978)
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Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game ...
- 1988
The Jester and the Queen (1988)
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The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and...
- 1966
Pearls of the Deep (1966)
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A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ch...
- 1970
Pravda (1970)
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Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political situation after the '68 revolution....
- 1998
Traps (1998)
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After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles....
- 1989
A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)
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A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and no-strings sexual adventures. Auditor Pepe, vet Dědek and restaurant manager František are financially se...