• Czech Republic
  • 1966
  • 76 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.33:1
  • Czech
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SYNOPSIS: Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.

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Cast

Marie IJitka Cerhová
Marie IIIvana Karbanová
Elderly gentlemanJulius Albert
Young gentlemanJan Klusák
Women in toiletMarie Cešková
Jiřina Myšková

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