Věra Chytilová, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Věra Chytilová

Czech director, professor and university educator

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1929

Place of Birth: Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 12-Mar-2014

Profession: screenwriter, pedagogue, film director

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Vera 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 Vlcí 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.