Věra Chytilová Filmes

The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds of students as they man barricades constructed from overturned...

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.

A spy film about how saboteurs obtain important data about the activities of a key company, while also trying to thwart the plan and undermine work...

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...

The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women...

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica,...

Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is...

An intellectual match between two dramatically different artists, one permanently unsure and frustrated and questioning everything, the other an...

Chytilová ran for Senate in 2006 as a Rovnost Šancí (The Equal Chance Party) candidate. The film is a collection of monologues...

Her first foray into documentary filmmaking was a short called Green Street (1959), a look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague....

Documentary about old age.

Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political...

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

Documentary about Czech filmaker Vera Chytilova.