This 2004 documentary by Jasmina Blaževič is a wide-ranging and challenging portrait of director Věra Chytilová.
In this interview, recorded in 2022, film programmer Irena Kovarova discusses the importance of DAISIES within the Czechoslovak New Wave.
Directed by Věra Chytilová • 1962 • Czechoslovakia
The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women finding freedom and joy amid the rigid conformity of life in a communal factory dormitory.
Directed by Věra Chytilová • 1962 • Czechoslovakia
Starring Marta Kanovská, Julián Chytil, Josef Abrhám
Informed by the director’s experiences working as a fashion model, Věra Chytilová’s remarkably assured graduation film—which she was able to make only by duping state censors with a phony scri...