Movies: Věra Chytilová
- 2016
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016)
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Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others....
- 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 ...
- 1969
Peaches (1969)
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Two spoiled best friends scam sugar daddies for a living. When they discover a Hermes Birkin bag they were gifted is a fake, their “boyfriends” and crimes catch up with them....
- 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...
- 1960
Caterwauling (1960)
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In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allows his wife to wear it. A nosy neighbour, Mr. B, drops in. A cat observes it all....
- 2006
Pleasant Moments (2006)
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Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman,...
- 1984
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1984)
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A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who e...
- 1991
My Pragues Understand Me (1991)
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A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit of that time by connecting Mozart's music with the architecture of Prague and by pointing up the chang...
- 2004
Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová (2004)
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Documentary about Czech filmaker Vera Chytilova....
- 1990
TGM the Liberator (1990)
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The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918....
- 1978
Time is inexorable (1978)
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Documentary about old age....
- 2012
Naughty Young People: Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová (2012)
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Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES...
- 2007
Troublemakers (2007)
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Chytilová ran for Senate in 2006 as a Rovnost Šancí (The Equal Chance Party) candidate. The film is a collection of monologues by female party members from across the nation....
- 1971
Comrades (1971)
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Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually unknown....
- 1957
Konec jasnovidce (1957)
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- 1985
Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe (1985)
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This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form and content of the film share a common underlining principle. The author doesn't simply list out the...
- 1954
Severní přístav (1954)
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- 1993
Kam panenky... (1993)
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- 2003
Trója v proměnách času (2003)
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- 1962
Green Street (1962)
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Her first foray into documentary filmmaking was a short called Green Street (1959), a look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague. Though only nine minutes in length, Chytilová’s astute editing ensured a visual spectacle....