Věra Chytilová — Director (9)
Daisies (1966) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Sedmikrásky
7.6 (12 ratings) director: Věra Chytilová actor: Jitka Cerhová / Ivana Karbanová
other title: Sedmikrásky / Le margheritine
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Something Different (1963) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB
O něčem jiném
director: Věra Chytilová actor: Věra Uzelacová / Josef Langmiler
other title: Von etwas anderem / Quelque chose d'autre
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 / Věra Chytilová actor: Pavla Maršálková / Ferdinand Krůta
other title: Perlen auf dem Meeresgrund / Les petites perles au fond de l'eau
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 / Karel Novák
other title: Les fruits du paradis / 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 / Miroslav Donutil
other title: Pasti, pasti, pastičky / Trampas
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 / Tomáš Palatý
other title: Die Wolfsbaude / Vlčí bouda
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 / Julián Chytil
other title: Strop / 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
other title: Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne / L'Après-midi d'un vieux faune
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.