Movie Details
Original Language:Czech
Production Companies:Bionaut Česká televize
Searching for Ester
2 hr 8 minDocumentary
Ester Krumbachová a costume designer screenwriter director one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave She worked in theatre she was a writer and an illustrator She cocreated films such as O slavnosti a hostech 1966 Sedmikrásky 1966 Vsichni dobrí rodáci 1969 Pension pro svobodné pány 1968 Valerie a týden divu 1970 Slamený klobouk 1972 and many others In the 1960s she was a pivot of the art scene in Prague attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career just setting out to find their own form of selfrealization Those who underwent her tutelage remember her forever Director Vera Chytilová talks to those who knew Ester Krumbachová who worked with her befriended her loved her She sets off on a search that is to end by answering the question Who was Ester
DirectorVěra Chytilová