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
In Expectation
2015
Pedagogical management
25 from the Sixties, or the Czechoslovak New Wave
2010
Performers
1. část
Czech Peace
2010
Performers
filmová režisérka
Dreamers
2009
Pedagogical management
Pleasant Moments
2006
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Music Composed by
In Search of Ester
2005
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Performers
režisérka
Ban from Paradise
2001
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script,
Music Advisor
Traps
1998
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script,
Music Advisor
The Garden of Eden
1994
Pedagogical management
The Garden of Eden
1994
Pedagogical management
Agostino
1993
Pedagogical management
režie
Solitude
1993
Pedagogical management
režie
The Inheritance or Fuck off, Boys, Guten Tag
1992
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay
Harvest
1992
Pedagogical management
režie
The Hunt
1992
Pedagogical management
režie
Silent Room
1992
Pedagogical management
režie
The People of Prague Understand Me
1991
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay
TGM the Liberator
1990
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Commentary by
Tainted Horseplay
1988
Director,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
The Clown and the Queen
1987
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
Wolf Chalet / Wolf's Hole
1986
Director,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe
1984
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Commentary by
Faun's Delayed Afternoon
1983
Director,
Screenplay,
Cast
Role: návštěvnice koncertu
Calamity
1980
Director,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
Story from a Housing Estate / Prefab Story
1979
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
The Time is Inexorable
1978
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Commentary by
Apple Game
1976
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay
We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise / Fruit of Paradise
1969
Director,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
Daisies
1966
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
The World Café
1965
Director,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
Another Way of Life / Something Different
1963
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Shooting Script
A Bag of Fleas
1962
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Commentary by
Ceeling
1961
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Dubbing
Role: hlas manekýny
The Rhymes
1961
Director
The St. Nicholas Day of FAMU
1961
Performers
Caterwauling
1960
Director,
Screenplay,
Commentary,
Dubbing
Role: hlas kočky
The General
1960
Cast
Role: generálova dcera
Greent Street
1959
Director,
Screen Story,
Screenplay,
Commentary by,
Commentary
The End of the Clairvoyant
1957
Cast
Role: dívka v plavkách
Lost People
1956
Assistant Director
Music from Mars
1954
Cooperation
klapka
Northern Harbour
1954
Cooperation
klapka
The Emperor's Baker – The Baker's Emperor
1951
Cast
Role: dvorní dáma
Awards
Vítěz
Event: Cena ministerstva kultury České republiky za přínos v oblasti kinematografie a audiovize
2014
Praha / Czech Republic
Vítěz
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
Vítěz
Festival: 1. festival nad řekou
2009
Písek / Czech Republic
Cena Miroslava Ondříčka
Vítěz
Event: Zlatá medaile Akademie múzických umění
2009
Praha / Czech Republic
Gold Medal of the Academy of Performing Arts
Vítěz
Event: Ceny Společnosti pro vědy a umění 2004
2004
Praha / Czech Republic
Vítěz
Festival: 55. mezinárodní filmový festival, Benátky
1998
Benátky / Italy
Traps
Vítěz
Event: Rytíř umění a literatury (Chevalier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres)
1992
Paříž / France
Vítěz
Festival: 10. festival české a slovenské filmové veselohry Nové Město nad Metují
1988
Nové Město nad Metují / Czechoslovakia
The Clown and the Queen
Vítěz
Event: Prémie Českého literárního fondu
1988
Praha / Czechoslovakia
The Clown and the Queen
Vítěz
Event: Ceny Trilobit 1966
1967
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Daisies
Vítěz
Event: Umělecká soutěž k 20. výročí osvobození Československa
1965
Praha / Czechoslovakia
A Bag of Fleas
Vítěz
Event: Umělecká soutěž k 20. výročí osvobození Československa
1965
Praha / Czechoslovakia
Another Way of Life / Something Different