FILM DIRECTOR

Věra Chytilová

1929 - 2014

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Věra Chytilová (Czech: [ˈvjɛra ˈxɪcɪlovaː]; 2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave 1966 film Sedmikrásky (Daisies). Her subsequent films screened at international film festivals, including Vlčí bouda (1987), which screened at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989), which screened at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992), which screened at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. For her work, she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Věra Chytilová is the 233rd most popular film director (down from 231st in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 158th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Věra Chytilová ranks 233 out of 2,041. Before her are Otar Iosseliani, Robert J. Flaherty, Guy Ritchie, Julien Duvivier, Ryan Murphy, and Richard Donner. After her are Yılmaz Güney, Michael Cacoyannis, Robert Wiene, John Schlesinger, Otto Preminger, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Věra Chytilová ranks 111. Before her are Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Andriyan Nikolayev, Joan Plowright, Michael Atiyah, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, and Carolyn S. Shoemaker. After her are Branko Zebec, June Carter Cash, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, André Previn, Bob Newhart, and Rajkumar. Among people deceased in 2014, Věra Chytilová ranks 74. Before her are Miklós Jancsó, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Mary Anderson, Leo Tindemans, Hilderaldo Bellini, and Étienne Mourrut. After her are David Easton, P. D. James, Mike Nichols, Milan Galić, Karl Albrecht, and Henry Hartsfield.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Věra Chytilová ranks 167 out of 1,200. Before her are Josef Čapek (1887), Rafael Kubelík (1914), Franz Reichelt (1879), František Palacký (1798), Victor Adler (1852), and Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760). After her are Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Bretislav I (1005), Blanche of Valois (1316), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110), and Leo Perutz (1882).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Věra Chytilová ranks 5. Before her are Miloš Forman (1932), Jiří Menzel (1938), Jan Švankmajer (1934), and G. W. Pabst (1885). After her are Karel Zeman (1910), Jiří Trnka (1912), Karel Reisz (1926), Václav Vorlíček (1930), Otakar Vávra (1911), Karl Freund (1890), and František Čáp (1913).

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