The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
Direction
Chytilová weaponizes silence — Marta's muteness becomes screaming.
Editing
Jagged cuts mirror fractured identity, 42 minutes that bruise.
Director
Věra Chytilová
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Czech New Wave's explosive 1962-1968 window, when Communist censorship paradoxically enabled experimental filmmaking through state-funded film school FAMU.
Chytilová cast her own husband Julián Chytil as one of the men who verbally consumes Marta — an almost too-perfect artistic marriage.
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