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Věra Chytilová

Died in 2014

Věra Chytilová was born on 2 February 1929 in Ostrava. After two years of studying architecture and philosophy, she worked as a technical draughtswoman, model and retoucher, then as a clapper loader at the Barrandov studios, before entering the Prague film school in 1957, where she studied under Otakar Vávra. Barred from filming for six years in the seventies, she obtained permission to work again after a letter to President Husák, and died in Prague on 12 March 2014.

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