Věra Chytilová Movies

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...

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

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 comple...

Documentary about Czech filmaker Vera Chytilova.

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 si...

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

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 p...

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

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allo...

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

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

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 acclaim...

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

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