Véra ChytilováFilmography

Born:
February 2, 1929 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Occupation:
Director, Screenwriter
Biography:
Vera Chytilova is Czechoslovakia's first blatantly feminist filmmaker. She was originally aligned with that country's 'New Wave' of filmmakers and is noted for being among the most innovative and radical of them. Before breaking into directing by studying at the Prague Film School, Chytilova...Read More

  • Pleasant Moments

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jana Janekova, Boleslav Polívka, Jana Krausova, David Kraus, Igor Bares

    Synopsis: An overworked psychologist struggles to balance her formidable workload with her failing love life to little avail in director/co-writer Vera Chytilova's quiet psychological drama. Between the insecure art historian (Jana Krausova) tormented by the damning remarks of her hypercritical son (David Read More

    2006

  • Vyhnani z Raje

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Boleslav Polívka, Chantal Poullain, Milan Steindler

    Synopsis: A filmmaker has to deal with obnoxious producers, uncooperative weather, and a troublesome cast -- not all of whom have opposable thumbs -- in this satiric comedy-drama. Rosta (Boleslav Polivka) is a director whose latest project is an ambitious film that draws parallels between the lives of Read More

    2001

  • Velvet Hangover

    Actors: Jaroslav Boucek, Jaroslav Brabec, Véra Chytilová, Sasa Gedeon, Jiri Krejcik

    2000

  • Pasti, Pasti, Pasticky

    Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

    Actors: Miroslav Donutil, Zuzana Stivinova, Tomas Hanak, Dasha Blahova, Katerina Hajna

    Synopsis: Vera Chytilova directed this Czech comedy. After some heavy drinking, ad exec Petr (Tomas Hanak) and government official Dohnal (Miroslav Donutil) encounter veterinarian Lenka (Zuzana Stivinova), out of gas on a deserted road. After they give her a ride, she's raped by Dohnal, who knocks her Read More

    1998

  • Dedictvi Aneb Kurvahosigutntag

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Miroslav Donutil, Dagmar Veskrnova

    Synopsis: In this comedy, Bohus (Bolek Polivka) is a lazy, brandy swilling not-farmer, who does nothing on his run down farm and only seems to move when he's invited to have a quickie with a local barmaid. He's not articulate, and has no higher goals. Thus, when he is informed that he has just inherited a Read More

    1993

  • Kopytem Sem, Kopytem Tam

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tomas Hanak, Tereza Kucerova, Bara Dlouha

    Synopsis: A cautionary tale about the dangers of unprotected promiscuity among heterosexuals, this story chronicles the exploits of three good friends. Pepe is the playboy of the bunch: despite having a lovely girlfriend, he finds a way to have sex with as many women as possible. His buddies from time to Read More

    1988

  • Sasek A Kralovna

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Boleslav Polívka, Chantal Poullainova, Jiri Kodet, Vlastimil Brodský

    Synopsis: Boleslav Polivika stars as Slach the Jester in this metaphorical comedy fantasy. Slach is the caretaker of an abandoned Bohemian castle that is rented out to wealthy visitors during deer-hunting season. The German Konig (Jiri Kodet) and his French fiance Regina (Chantal Poulainova) arrive with Read More

    1988

  • Vlcí Bouda

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Miroslav Machacek, Tomas Platy, Stepankova Cervenkova, Frantisek Stanek, Jan Bidlas

    Synopsis: In this Czech political allegory-cum-sci-fi adventure, ten teens from different schools find themselves chosen to take part in a special skiing workshop in the mountains. On the day of the seminar, 11 young people, each bearing an invitation, arrive. A massive avalanche occurs and the ski-lodge is Read More

    1986

  • Prague

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    1985

  • Faunovo Velmi Pozdni Odpoledne

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Leos Sucharipa, Jiri Halek, Tereza Kucerova

    Synopsis: The strains of Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" waft through this amusing comedy about an aging lecher's ever-optimistic pursuit of the fair sex, for fair sex, or better. The "faun" wakes up to a new day of happy hunting because the proof of the pudding is irrelevant, it is the joy of finding the Read More

    1984

  • Chytilova Versus Forman

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Director Vera Chytilova focuses on her exiled Czech compatriot Milos Forman in this mistitled look at his directorial history and style. Forman is shown at work on Ragtime, and jogging or walking around the streets. He also discusses his passion for filmmaking, his survival skills, and his Read More

    1981

  • Kalamita

    Crew: Director

    1981

  • Panel Story

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Eva Kacirkova

    Synopsis: One of the best directors out of the former Czechoslovakia, feminist filmmaker Vera Chytilova, turns her hand to social satire in this funny series of jabs at the flaws in Czech society and bureaucracy. The focal point of the story is a prefabricated (modular) apartment complex that is slowly, too Read More

    1980

  • Hra o jablko

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jirí Menzel, Evelyna Steimarova

    Synopsis: Since he works many hours in the maternity ward of a Czech hospital, the comic couplings of a young doctor take place in whatever out-of-the way spots he can find. Sometimes he has a few free hours, and he takes his women to a secluded spot. Some of these spots have become legends: once he took Read More

    1977

  • Ovoce Stromu Rajskych Jime

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jan Schmid

    Synopsis: An experimental, densely symbolic retelling of Adam and Eve, Fruit of Paradise opens before "the Fall," as Josef and Eva wander nude through an Eden depicted through superimposing images of red, brown, and yellow leaves and flora over the two in a park. A choir chants the opening passages of Read More

    1969

  • Daisies

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: An exercise in avant-garde cinema that is freshly humorous and accessible, Daisies is a dark comedy that eschews a traditional narrative for a Dadaist construction of events. Perpetually dressed in vibrantly corresponding costumes and dark black eyeliner, Marie and Marie work together to create Read More

    1967

  • Pearls of the Deep

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Ferdinand Kruta, Alois Vachek

    Synopsis: Five directors team up for this drama that strings the stories together in one 105-minute Czech feature. "Mr. Baltazar's Death" is directed by Jiri Menzel. Jan Nemec directs "The Imposters" in which two elderly men nearing death keep themselves alive by telling each other lies about their careers. Read More

    1965

  • O Necem Jinem

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Vera Chytilova wrote and directed this two-part story that took the Grand Prix at the Mannheim Film Festival. Part one deals with the rigorous training of Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosakova. She contemplates retirement as she goes through a gruelling training schedule known only by world-class Read More

    1963

  • Strop

    Crew: Director

    1962

  • Pytel blech

    Crew: Director

    1962

  • Green Street

    Crew: Director

    1960

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