Věra Chytilová
Date of birth
02.02.1929Place of birth
Ostrava, ČeskoslovenskoDate of death
12.03.2014Place of death
Praha, Česká republikaAlternative names
Věra Ludwigová (1. provdaná), Věra Kučerová (2. provdaná)Biography
Perhaps the most innovative director of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s, Věra Chytilová, was born on February 2, 1929 in Ostrava. While working as a clapper girl at Barrandov Studio, she was accepted to the Prague film school FAMU. During the years 1957–1962 she studied direction under the veteran Czech film director Otakar Vávra. In her schoolwork, she was visibly influenced by cinéma-vérité documentaries and formalist modern European movies. The same was true for her first feature film, Something Different (1963), which intercuts the life of a real gymnast with a fictional story of a housewife. Chytilová is probably best known for her second film, the Dadaist, surrealist and feminist hymn to creative imagination Daisies (1966). After the Soviet invasion in 1968, she wasn't allowed to shoot feature films for a few years. Then she returned with the acerbic comedy of manners The Apple Game (1977). Her satire about social reality of socialist community called Panelstory (1979) was so provocative that it could be seen only on the outskirts of Prague. After the fall of Communist regime, Chytilová completed many penetrating documentaries and four more features satirising capitalism and revealing her still equally strong moral stance. Věra Chytilová died in Prague at the age of 85, on March 12, 2014. -mrš-
Filmography
Awards
Vítěz
Event: Cena ministerstva kultury České republiky za přínos v oblasti kinematografie a audiovize
2014
Praha / Czech Republic
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Festival: 1. festival nad řekou
2009
Písek / Czech Republic
Cena Miroslava Ondříčka
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Event: Zlatá medaile Akademie múzických umění
2009
Praha / Czech Republic
Gold Medal of the Academy of Performing Arts
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Event: 9. ceny Novoborské akademie spojených kinematografií Asociace
provozovatelů kin ČR
2009
Nový Bor / Czech Republic
Cena prezidenta akademie a sklárny Ajeto za nesmazatelnou stopu ve světové kinematografii
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Event: Ceny Společnosti pro vědy a umění 2004
2004
Praha / Czech Republic
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Festival: 55. mezinárodní filmový festival, Benátky
1998
Benátky / Italy
Traps
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Event: Rytíř umění a literatury /Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres/
1992
Paříž / France
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Festival: 10. festival české a slovenské filmové veselohry Nové Město nad Metují
1988
Nové Město nad Metují / Czechoslovakia
The Clown and the Queen
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Event: Prémie Českého literárního fondu
1988
Praha / Czechoslovakia
The Clown and the Queen
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Event: Ceny Trilobit 1966
1967
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Daisies
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Event: Umělecká soutěž k 20. výročí osvobození Československa
1965
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Another Way of Life
Vítěz
Event: Umělecká soutěž k 20. výročí osvobození Československa
1965
Praha / Czechoslovakia
A Bag of Fleas
