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Michaela Pavlátová
Born February 27, 1961 · Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) (age 65)
Michaela Pavlátová (born 27 February 1961) is a Czech animator, film director, and teacher. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Words, Words, Words (1991) and won the Short Film Golden Bear for Repete (1995). As a feminist experimental animator, Michaela's work explores themes of sex, gender, philosophy, and relationality. Beyond her independent work, she worked…
Known For
Tram · 2012Tram
★ 6.02012
MovieAnimationComedy
As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.
My Sunny Maad · 2021My Sunny Maad
★ 6.22021
MovieAnimationDrama
When Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband's violent grip.
The Crossword Puzzle · 1990The Crossword Puzzle
★ 6.01990
MovieAnimation
A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy
Fair Play · 2014Fair Play
★ 6.12014
MovieDrama
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
Buttoners · 1997Buttoners
★ 7.01997
MovieComedy
It is a film consisting of six short stories, which mostly tell in a black humorous, ironic, often bitterly bitter form about an ancient curse, human infidelity, strange deviations, an unexpected miracle and hypocritical forgiveness. They have their own pointed structure, specific atmosphere and way of processing, and yet they pass on motives to each other that communicate with each other and observe the same things from different angles.
Seducer · 2002Seducer
★ 4.62002
MovieDramaComedy
A husband asks his best friend to seduce his wife in order to get divorce.
Prague Stories · 1999Prague Stories
★ 5.01999
MovieDramaComedy
A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.
Děti noci · 2008Děti noci
★ 4.32008
MovieDrama
Ofka has fallen into a strange lethargy: while most of her high school classmates continue their studies, she refuses to leave the deceptive comfort of childhood, which is quickly turning into a stifling trap. She works in her brother-in-law Eda's 24-hour shop and lets the fragments of wasted lives of regular and random customers, as well as those of her old friends who, like her, only really live at night, flit around her. Sometimes she drops in on a group drinking in the Vltava harbor, wanders the streets with the eccentric Ubre, who is fascinated by fishing discarded items out of trash cans and hopelessly in love with her, and avoids Míra, who, on the contrary, has stopped loving her. However, it is becoming increasingly clear to her that one day she will have to say goodbye to her childhood, cross the borders of her native neighborhood, and start doing something with her life...
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