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Vĕra Chytilová
Vĕra ChytilováVĕra Chytilová
Innovative and controversial, Vĕra Chytilová (born 1929) is the only significant Czech woman filmmaker and Czech cinema\'s first feminist director. She was a prominent member of the early 1960s Czech New Wave, which was influenced by cinema verite\'s objectivity and French New Wave\'s subjectivity and employed such techniques as improvised dialogue, amateur actors, allegory, surreal content, and choppy editing. In her work she has explored the troubles of contemporary society and has been harshly critical of human failings. Her selected filmography includes Daisies (1966), Fruit of Paradise (1969), The Apple Game (1976), and Prague: The Restless Heart of Europe (1984).