Věra Chytilová Movies

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

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

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

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

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...

A look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague.

Eva is a new member of a girl's boarding school and textile factory. She looks up to the free-spirited Jana who struggles against conformity and...

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's...

The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast that they would put together an orchestra is taken...

Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre,...

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech...

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...

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

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

Private psychic Mathias Scibolini practices his profession properly and to the full satisfaction of his clients. When the integration of the...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, at the time of the Prusso-Austrian War, a cuirassier, a hussar and an infantryman meet by chance and hide...