Daisies (film)
1966 film by Věra Chytilová / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian arthouse[2] surrealist experimental[3] psychological comedy film written and directed by Věra Chytilová.
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Directed by | Věra Chytilová |
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Produced by | Rudolf Hájek |
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Cinematography | Jaroslav Kučera |
Edited by | Miroslav Hájek |
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Running time | 76 minutes[1] |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Language | Czech |
Regarded as a milestone of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement,[4][5] it follows two young women (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová), both named Marie, who engage in strange pranks.[1] Originally planned as a satire of bourgeois decadence, the movie targets those attached to rules and was referred to by Chytilová as "a necrologue about a negative way of life."[6] Daisies also inverts the stereotypical ideas of women and redraws them to the heroines' advantage. The film is considered critical of authoritarianism, Soviet communism and patriarchy,[7][8][9] and it was banned from theaters or export in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.[10]