Věra Chytilová — Director (9)
Something Different (1963) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB
O něčem jiném
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Věra Uzelacová
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Josef Langmiler
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other title:
Von etwas anderem
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Quelque chose d'autre
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In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling training schedule; the second, a housewife who is unappreciated and ignored by her husband.
Pearls of the Deep (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Perličky na dně
director:
Evald Schorm
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Věra Chytilová
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actor:
Pavla Maršálková
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Ferdinand Krůta
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other title:
Perlen auf dem Meeresgrund
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Les petites perles au fond de l'eau
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A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
Fruit of Paradise (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ovoce stromů rajských jíme
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Jitka Novákova
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Karel Novák
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other title:
Les fruits du paradis
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Ovoce stromů rajských jíme
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
Traps (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Pasti, pasti, pastičky
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Zuzana Stivínová
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Miroslav Donutil
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other title:
Pasti, pasti, pastičky
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Trampas
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After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.
Wolf's Hole (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Vlčí bouda
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Miroslav Macháček
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Tomáš Palatý
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other title:
Die Wolfsbaude
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Vlčí bouda
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Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors.
Ceiling (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Strop
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Marta Kaňovská
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Julián Chytil
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other title:
Strop
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Le Plafond
The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Leoš Suchařípa
/
Libuše Pospíšilová
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other title:
Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne
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L'Après-midi d'un vieux faune
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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 even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntag
director:
Věra Chytilová
actor:
Bolek Polívka
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Miroslav Donutil
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other title:
Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntag
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Herencia
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Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus sets out to tour his new empire, insulting everyone on the way.