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Directing · Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
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…
Known for
- CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel — Self2018
- To Make a Comedy Is No Fun — Self2016
- Naughty Young People: Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová2012
- Golden Sixties — Self2009
- Searching for Ester — Herself2005
- Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová — Herself2004
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Věra Chytilová ( Czech: [ˈvjɛra ˈxɪcɪlovaː]; 2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was a Czech avant-garde filmmaker. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her 1966 Czech New Wave film Daisies. Among her subsequent films are Wolf's Hole (1987), A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989) and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992). For her work, she received the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Czech Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.
Early life and education