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Vera Chytilová was the most important woman director of the Czechoslovak New Wave. As the first female student of the prestigious FAMU film school, she had to fight in order to do things her own way. During the Prague Spring, she made her most well-known film ‘Daisies’ (1966) – a surrealist pop-art comedy, about two young women who set their minds on creating humorous destruction around them. But soon a massive crackdown on artistic freedom forced her to make the most difficult decisions...
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