Reihe Feministischer Film TAUSENDSCHÖNCHEN (SEDMIKRÁSKY)

Feminist Film Series
ATHOUSAND DAISIES
(SEDMIKRÁSKY)
Director: Vera Chytilová
Czechoslovakia 1966, 73 min., uncut!, original Czech with German subtitles, Blu-ray projection
Starring: Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova, Marcela Brezinova, Julius Albert, Oldrich Hora, Jan Klusák, Josef Konícek, Jaromír Vomácka

Vera Chytilová, the grande dame and enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, pulled out all the stops in her 1966 film *Thousand Beautiful Flowers*: a fireworks display of visual tricks, stylistic gimmicks, and formal playfulness—cheeky, subversive, garishly colorful, and anarchistic all at once—that, with a pout and big, wide-eyed girlish gaze, throws her pure-white anarcho-feminism right in our faces. Given this joyful formal madness, this art that literally goes off the rails, it’s no wonder that *TAUSENDSCHÖNCHEN* was banned in Czechoslovakia.

In the beginning, there were two girls: Marie 1 and Marie 2 are crouching in a swimming pool. When they move their arms and legs, it squeaks as if the prince were opening the door to Sleeping Beauty’s room, which has been locked for 100 years. They both agree: the world is depraved. So they decide to be depraved from now on, too. No sooner said than done—and as befits two depraved and squealing girls, they slap their way out of the swimming pool and straight into paradise. From then on, they do whatever they please: they feast and misbehave until, in the end, not even the movie itself is safe from them...

Admission: 7,-
Tickets available in advance at the store and at the Box Office.
Hours: Tue–Sat 2:00–9:00 p.m.