Searching for Ester

Searching for Ester

128 mins | Documentary | April 12, 2005

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?

Searching for Ester

128 mins | Documentary | April 12, 2005

Searching for Ester
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?
Producers Česká televize, Bionaut
Original title Pátrání po Ester
Directors Věra Chytilová
Writers

Cast

Ester Krumbachová

as Herself (archive footage)

Věra Chytilová

as Herself

Ivan Balaďa

as Himself

Jiřina Bohdalová

as Herself

Květa Fialová

as Herself

Vojtěch Jasný

as Himself

Jiří Krejčík

as Himself

Ivan Král

as Himself

Marta Kubišová

as Herself

Jan Němec

as Himself

Ivan Vyskočil

as Himself

Petr Václav

as Himself

Otakar Vávra

as Himself

Jiří Svoboda

as Himself