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Ester Krumbachová
Writer 1923 - 1996

Ester Krumbachová

Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Ester Krumbachová was a Czech screenwriter and costume designer. She is best known for her collaborations with Czech New Wave directors Věra Chytilová and Jan Němec. Němec described her as his "muse". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography

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6 titles
Vrazda ing. Certa

Vrazda ing. Certa

Ester Krumbachová 1970 1h 12m

Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton.

Valerie a týden divu

Valerie a týden divu

Jaromil Jireš 1970 1h 13m 7.5

Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world.

Ovoce stromu rajských jíme

Ovoce stromu rajských jíme

Věra Chytilová 1970 1h 39m 5.5

The story is an allegory of Adam and Eve, in a modern(made in 60's) Health Retreat. The action involves our heroin wandering the grounds where she becomes obsessed with a mysterious man in red, who may or may not be a killer.

Kladivo na carodejnice

Kladivo na carodejnice

Otakar Vávra 1970 1h 47m 7.3

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

Sedmikrásky

Sedmikrásky

Věra Chytilová 1966 1h 16m 8.1

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.

O slavnosti a hostech

O slavnosti a hostech

Jan Němec 1966 1h 10m 9.0

In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an international success after it premiered at the New York Film Festival.

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