About Věra Chytilová
Věra Chytilová (Czech: [ˈvjɛra ˈxɪcɪlovaː]; 2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was a Czech avant-garde filmmaker. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her 1966 Czech New Wave film Daisies. Among her subsequent films are Wolf's Hole (1987), A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989) and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992). For her work, she received the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Czech Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award. == Early life and education == Chytilová was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, on 2 February 1929. She had a strict Catholic upbringing, which would later come to influence many of the moral questions presented in her films. While attending college in Brno, Chytilová initially studied philosophy and architecture, but abandoned these fields. She then worked as a draftswoman, a fashion model and as a photo re-toucher before working as a clapper girl for the Barrandov Film Studios in Prague. She then sought a recommendation from Barrandov Film Studios to study film production, but was denied. Undeterred by the rejection, she would later be accepted into the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) at the age of 28, the first woman to study directing at the school.
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