Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Wolf's Hole

Vera Chytilova 1986 Czech Republic Feature color 92min Czech DCP
Vera CHYTILOVA's subversive take on teen-horror/sci-fi genre assembles a gaggle of bratty adolescents for a mysterious skiing retreat at a snowbound cabin where they find themselves plunged into a sadistic social experiment. Wolf’s Hole is both a gonzo genre joyride and a blistering allegory for the psychic violence wrought by authoritarian oppression. CHYTILOVA enlivens the proceedings with her typical stylistic verve, using a vertiginous arsenal of zooms, zip-pans, and handheld camerawork to evoke her young characters’ disorientation, and setting it all to a suitably eerie score by popular Czech musician and composer Michael KOCAB.

Director

Vera Chytilova

Vera CHYTILOVA, known as "the first lady of Czech cinema" and "the most avant-garde female director in Eastern Europe." She also plays an important role in the Czech New Wave movement. Her style is both controversial and diverse, but most of her films attempt to analyze various issues in the patriarchal society from a feminist perspective.

Vera Chytilova

2006 Pleasant Moments

2005 In Search of Ester 

2001 Ban from Paradise 天堂禁戀

1998 Traps 陷阱

1992 The Inheritance or Fuck off, Boys, Guten Tag

1991 The People of Prague Understand Me

1990 TGM the Liberator

1988 Tainted Horseplay

1987 The Clown and the Queen

1986 Wolf's Hole 狼穴

1984 Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe

1983 Faun's Delayed Afternoon

1980 Calamity

1979 Story from a Housing Estate

1978 The Time is Inexorable

1976 Apple Game 禁果遊戲

1969 We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise

1969Fruit of Paradise 天堂的果實

1966 Daisies 野雛菊

1965 The World Café

1963 Another Way of Life

1963 Something Different 薇拉與伊娃

1962 A Bag of Fleas

1961 Ceeling

1961 The Rhymes

1960 Caterwauling

1959 Greent Street

Director:Vera CHYTILOVA

Screenwritter:Daniela FISCHEROVA, Vera CHYTILOVA

Cinematographer:Jaromir SOFR

Editor:Jiri BROZEK

Sound Designer:Roman HLOCH

Production Designer:Ludvik SIROKY

Art Director:Jiri BARTA

Special Effect:Antonin WEISER, Michael POLEDNIK

Music:Michael KOCAB
 

 

Narodni filmovy archiv / National Film Archive
Lucia PETRIKOVA
lucia.petrikova@nfa.cz