Personal Info
베라 히틸로바
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维拉·希蒂洛娃
Věra Chytilová
Directing
Biography
Věra Chytilová 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 continuous narrative and abrupt visual style. Chytilová states that she structured Daisies to “restrict [the spectator’s] feeling of involveme…
Filmography
Movies
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
as Self
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
as Self
Naughty Young People: Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová
Searching for Ester
as Herself
Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová
as Herself
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
Chytilová Versus Forman
as Self
Pravda
as Self (uncredited)
An Occasion to Speak
as Self
Ceiling
as Model (voice)