Directed by:
Věra ChytilováScreenplay:
Věra ChytilováCinematography:
David ČálekCast:
Ester Krumbachová, Věra Chytilová, Jan Němec, Ivan Vyskočil, Květa Fialová, Jiří Krejčík, Otakar Vávra, Vojtěch Jasný, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Marta Kubišová (more)Plots(1)
Ester Krumbachová – an artist, screenplay writer, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as The Party and the Guests, Daisies, All My Good Countrymen, Fruit of Paradise, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, The Very Late Afternoon of Faun, Marian, and many others. In the 1960s, she was a ‘pivot’ of the art scene in Prague, attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career, just setting out to find their own form of selfrealization.
Those who underwent her tutelage remember her forever. Director Věra Chytilová talks to those who knew Ester Krumbachová, who worked with her, befriended her, loved her. She sets off on a search that is to end by answering the question: Who was Ester?
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Ester Krumbachová
Czechoslovakia
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jan Němec
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Murdering the Devil (1970)
The Ferrari Dino Girl (2009)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Ivan Vyskočil
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Revizor (1971) (theatrical recording)
Forbidden Dreams (1986)
Muž v pozadí (1995) (series)
Květa Fialová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Charleyova teta (1969) (theatrical recording)
Vajíčko (1968) (TV movie)
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
Jiří Krejčík
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Cosy Dens (1999)
The Snowdrop Festival (1983)
The Masked Lover (1940)
Otakar Vávra
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Great Movie Robbery (1986)
Vojtěch Jasný
Czechoslovakia
Radoslav Brzobohatý
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Král Krysa (1979) (theatrical recording)
Lucerna (1967) (TV movie)
All My Compatriots (1968)
Marta Kubišová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Le Concert Midem Cannes 1968 (1968) (concert)
Koncert pro Martu (2022) (concert)
Karel Svoboda 65 (2004) (concert)
Jiřina Bohdalová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dům na nebesích (1984) (theatrical recording)
Těžká Barbora (1960) (theatrical recording)
Pohádky pod sněhem (1985)
Jiří Svoboda
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Luk královny Dorotky (1970)
Muž na útěku (1968)
The Great Movie Robbery (1986)
Petr Václav
Czechoslovakia
Ivan Balaďa
Czechoslovakia
Kateřina Macháčková
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Scapinova šibalství (1980) (TV movie)
Rusalka (1975) (TV movie)
Netopýr (1981) (TV movie)
Jan Klusák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Daisies (1966)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Ivan Král
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Mňága - Happy End (1996)
Cabriolet (2001)
Petr Slabý
Czechoslovakia