Věra Chytilová
Directing
February 2, 1929
Died March 12, 2014 (85 years old)
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
15
Acting Credits
31
Directed
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...
Known For
Filmography
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
as Self
6.5
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
as Self
5.8
Naughty Young People: Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová
2012
Golden Sixties
2009
as Self
Searching for Ester
2005
as Herself
8
Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová
2004
as Herself
4
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
1984
4.8
Chytilová Versus Forman
1981
as Self
8
Pravda
1970
as Self (uncredited)
5.8
An Occasion to Speak
1966
as Self
Green Street
1962
as Commentary (voice)
6.2
Ceiling
1962
as Model (voice)
5.5
Caterwauling
1960
as Cat (voice)
7.5
Konec jasnovidce
1957
8.3
The Emperor and the Golem
1951
as First Handmaiden
7