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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): Český (Czech)
• Director(s): Věra Chytilová
• Cast(s): Věra Chytilová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Květa Fialová, Vojtěch Jasný, Ivan Král See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 2h 8min
• Similar To: The Russian Job, Rene
• Story:
  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 co-created 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 self-realization. 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?
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