Věra Chytilová
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1929-02-02 (85 years old)
Deathday
2014-03-12
Place of Birth
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Also known As
베라 히틸로바
베라 치틸로바
维拉·希蒂洛娃
Věra Chytilová
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 involvement and lead him to an understanding of the underly...
Acting
1952
as First Handmaiden
1962
as Commentary (voice)
1962
as Model (voice)
2004
as Herself
1970
as Self (uncredited)
1966
as Self
1960
as Cat (voice)
2005
as Herself
1982
as Self
2018
2016
as Self
1957
Production
1962
as Story
1962
as Screenplay
1963
as Story
1963
as Screenplay
1963
as Story
1963
as Screenplay
1992
as Director
1966
as Director
1966
as Screenplay
1982
as Director
1954
as Clapper Loader
1955
as Clapper Loader
1984
as Director
2001
as Director
1978
as Director
1988
as Director
1970
as Director
1998
as Director
1985
1966
as Director
1966
as Screenplay
1987
as Director
1966
as Story
1960
as Screenplay
1963
as Director
1989
as Director
1963
as Director
2007
as Director
2007
as Screenplay
2007
as Idea
1981
as Director
1957
as Assistant Director
1991
as Director
1970
as Screenplay
2006
as Director
1962
as Director
1962
as Story
1968
as Cinematography
1993
as Director
1993
as Story
1993
as Screenplay
2006
as Writer
1985
as Director
1978
as Story
1978
as Screenplay
1978
as Story
2003
as Story
2003
as Screenplay
2003
as Director
1984
as Screenplay
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as Original Film Writer
1982
as Screenplay
1960
as Director
1981
1981
as Screenplay
2005
as Director
1990
as Director
1982
as Director
1978
as Director
1971
as Director
1962
as Director
1962
as Screenplay
1971
as Screenplay
1978
as Screenplay
1985
as Screenplay
2001
as Screenplay
1987
as Screenplay
1988
as Story
1988
as Screenplay
1989
as Screenplay
1990
as Story
1990
as Screenplay
1991
as Screenplay
1991
as Story
1992
as Screenplay
1992
1998
as Story
1998
as Screenplay
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