Set against the backdrop of a repressed Czechoslovakia, five non-related vignettes are presented Read More »
Tag Archives: Vera Chytilová
Something Different AKA O necem jiném (1963) Vera Chytilová, Eva Bosáková, Vera Uzelacová, Josef Langmiler
Two stories are simultaneously told. One dutiful mother progressively becomes a frustrated Read More »
Fruit of Paradise AKA Ovoce stromu rajských jíme (1970) Vera Chytilová, Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak, Jan Schmid
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence. Read More »
Wolf’s Hole AKA Vlci bouda (1987) Vera Chytilová, Miroslav Machácek, Tomás Palatý, Stepánka Cervenková
A group of teenagers are mysteriously invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains. Read More »
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983) Vera Chytilová, Leos Sucharípa, Libuse Pospísilová, Vlasta Spicnerová
The strains of Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun” waft through this amusing comedy about an aging lecher’s ever-optimistic pursuit of the fair sex, for fair sex, or better. Read More »
The Apple Game (1977) Vera Chytilová, Dagmar Bláhová, Jirí Menzel, Jirí Kodet
Doctor John, who works in a Prague maternity hospital while still living at home with his mother Read More »
The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992) Vera Chytilová, Bolek Polívka, Miroslav Donutil, Anna Pantuckova
A hillbilly inherits millions and goes to the city, leaving his village to live a rich man’s life in post communist Czech Republic. Read More »
Vyhnání z ráje / Expulsion from Paradise (2001) Vera Chytilová, Bolek Polívka, Jan Antonín Pitínský, Milan Steindler, Drama, Comedy, Erotic
Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.
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