Věra Chytilová Close Up (Věra Chytilová zblízka)

Biography of an important Czech film director. Věra Chytilová studied architecture in Brno for two years, and started at the Barrandov Film Studio as a clapper, scriptwriter, assistant and assistant director. After several years of filmmaking experience (1953–1957), she studied directing at FAMU in Prague. Representative of the so-called Czech New Wave (About Something Else, 1963; Daisies, 1966; The Fruit of the Tomato Trees We Eat, 1969). At the time of normalization, she worked only with difficulty.