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FILM DIRECTOR

Věra Chytilová

1929 - 2014

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Věra Chytilová (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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Věra Chytilová has received more than 221,642 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Věra Chytilová is the 248th most popular film director (down from 228th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 141st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Věra Chytilová ranks 248 out of 1,581Before her are Jane Campion, Mikhail Kalatozov, Stanley Donen, Mauritz Stiller, David Hamilton, and Gojko Mitić. After her are Martin Campbell, Edward Dmytryk, Karel Zeman, Edwin S. Porter, Hideaki Anno, and Robert Wiene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Věra Chytilová ranks 103Before her are Georgi Markov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bob Denard, John Polanyi, June Carter Cash, and Kjell Askildsen. After her are Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Eva Schloss, Chespirito, Isabel Sarli, David Kelly, and Lorenzo Buffon. Among people deceased in 2014, Věra Chytilová ranks 62Before her are Gottfried John, Miklós Jancsó, Ralph H. Baer, B. K. S. Iyengar, Stuart Hall, and Veljko Kadijević. After her are Hilderaldo Bellini, Chespirito, Luise Rainer, Siegfried Lenz, Fred Phelps, and Gabriel Axel.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Věra Chytilová ranks 160 out of 973Before her are Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Blanche of Valois (1316), František Plánička (1904), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860). After her are Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), Bedřich Hrozný (1879), Karel Zeman (1910), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Josef Koudelka (1938), and František Palacký (1798).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Věra Chytilová ranks 5Before 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), František Čáp (1913), Otakar Vávra (1911), and Ivan Passer (1933).

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