Bag of Fleas
Věra Chytilová / Czechoslovakia / 1962 / 44 min.
synopsis
Although this film might seem to viewers to be purely documentary, the opposite is true. Věra Chytilová, in her mid-length debut, focuses on the life of girls in boarding schools using her own personal style. She opened the way for other filmmakers to explore heretofore undiscovered topics.
biography
Věra Chytilová (1929-2014) was one of the pillars of the Czech New Wave and is considered to be among the most significant creative figures in Czech cinematography. In the majority of her films, she addresses the fate of women and their experiences in modern times.
more about film
| director: | Věra Chytilová |
| script: | Věra Chytilová |
| photography: | Jaromír Šofr |
| editing: | Marie Čulíková |
| music: | Jan Klusák |
| sound: | Gustav Houdek, Jan Kindermann |
contact
NFA / Tomáš Žůrek / Malešická 14 / 13000 / Prague / Czech Republic / +420 778 487 857 / tomas.zurek@nfa.cz / www.nfa.cz
Film at festival
| festival edition: | 2018 |
| section: | Cinéma vérité in the 1960s Czechoslovak doc. cinema |
| format: | DCP |
| language: | Czech |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Věra Chytilová |
| original title: | Pytel blech |
| country: | Czechoslovakia |
| year: | 1962 |
| running time: | 44 min. |
