维拉·希蒂洛娃 — Playwright (20)
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Flights and Falls (2000) IMDb TMDB
Vzlety a pády
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃
other title: Vzlety a pády
Chytilová’s highly impressive but little-known documentary provides a fascinating and atmospheric journey into a hidden culture, one in which she herself participated. Chytilová investigates the lives of three Czech photographers (Václav Chochola, Karel Ludwig, Zdeněk Tmej) from the 30s to the present, and also embraces the submerged world of 50s culture and the work of novelist Bohumil Hrabal and artist Vladimír Boudník.
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The Jester and the Queen (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Šašek a královna
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Bolek Polívka / Chantal Poullain …
other title: Šašek a královna / Der Narr und die Königin
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 villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.
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A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kopytem sem, kopytem tam
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Tomáš Hanák / Milan Šteindler …
other title: 위험한 장난 / Kopytem sem, kopytem tam …
A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and no-strings sexual adventures. Auditor Pepe, vet Dědek and restaurant manager František are financially secure and enjoy life with their similarly fun-loving girlfriends—at least until the moment when the brash Pepe collapses and ends up in hospital.
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The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Leoš Suchařípa / Libuše Pospíšilová …
other title: 목신의 매우 늦은 오후 / Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne …
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 passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
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Strop (1962) IMDb Douban
Strop
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Marta Kanovská / Julián Chytil …
other title: 天花板 / Ceiling …
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 completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
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Time is Relentless (1978) IMDb Douban
Čas je neúprosný
director: Vera Chytilová
other title: Cas je neúprosný / Time is inexorable …
Documentary about old age.
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Pleasant Moments (2006) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Hezké chvilky bez záruky
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Jana Janěková / Jana Krausová …
other title: 대책 없는 인생 / Hezké chvilky bez záruky …
Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is having problems with her 25-year-old son; she is in love with her son's friend and her son is offended by her behavior. To complete the circle, he falls in love with Hana and Honzik is utterly disgusted by their affair. Another of Hana's patients is Dub, a millionaire who can have pretty much anything, or anyone, he wants. He wants Hana. But he can't have her.
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Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: 卢卡斯·贝奇 / Antonín Vanha …
other title: 预制板的故事 / Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste …
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 which he is supposed to be moving with his daughter's family. The old granddad from the countryside likes chatting, nothing escapes his eyes and he wants to give everyone a helping hand.
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Something Different (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
O něčem jiném
★ 7.3 (7 ratings) director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Eva Bosáková / Vera Uzelacová …
other title: 不同的事 / O něčem jiném …
In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling training schedule; the second, a housewife who is unappreciated and ignored by her husband.
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A Bagful of Fleas (1962) Douban
Pytel blech
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃
other title: 许多跳蚤 / Pytel blech
The fi lm depicts the everyday life of an internship for apprentices in a typical small-town boarding school in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Jana rebels against the rigid structures of the institution much to the admiration of the majority of the girls. She does not want to become a “model worker”: she has a boyfriend and wants to see him as much as she can and dance rock-and-roll and she despises the supervisor’s hypocrisy. The teachers try in vain to make the girl conform to the dominant social models: the girl begins to neglect her work and refuses to speak.
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Wolf's Hole (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Vlci bouda
director: Vera Chytilová actor: Miroslav Macháček / Tomáš Palatý …
other title: 늑대 소굴 / Vlčí bouda …
Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors.
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Pearls of the Deep (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Perličky na dně
★ 7.0 (12 ratings) director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 / 亚罗米尔·伊雷什 … actor: Pavla Marsálková / 费迪南德·克鲁塔 …
other title: 底层的珍珠 / Perličky na dně …
A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat farmer and his mother; guests at a wedding reception remain oblivious to outlying misery; and a working-class boy romances a Roma girl.
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Expulsion from Paradise (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Vyhnání z ráje
director: 维拉·希蒂洛娃 actor: Veronika Bellová / 波莱克·波利夫卡 …
other title: 天堂禁恋 / Vyhnání z ráje …
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.