Věra Chytilová
Birthday
1929/02/02
Day of death
2014/03/12 (85 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Also know as
베라 히틸로바, 베라 치틸로바, 维拉·希蒂洛娃
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 sty...Read more
Acting
(1952) The Emperor and the Golem
as First Handmaiden
(1962) Green Street
as Commentary (voice)
(1962) Ceiling
as Model (voice)
(2004) Journey: Portrait of Věra Chytilová
as Herself
(1970) Pravda
as Self (uncredited)
(2012) Naughty Young People: Chytilová, Kučera, Krumbachová
as ---
(1984) The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
as ---
(1966) An Occasion to Speak
as Self
(1960) Caterwauling
as Cat (voice)
(2005) Searching for Ester
as Herself
(1982) Chytilová Versus Forman
as Self
(2018) CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
as Self
(2016) To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
as Self
(1957) Konec jasnovidce
as ---
(2009) Golden Sixties
as Self