Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2014)

Věra Chytilová

Czech film director (1929–2014)

Věra Chytilová 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 1966 film Sedmikrásky (Daisies). Her subsequent films screened at international film festivals,…