Sommerkino: Tausendschönchen – Die kleinen Margeriten

In the organizer's words:

Director: Věra Chytilová

ČSSR, 1966 | 76 minutes | Czech with German subtitles

Marie 1 and Marie 2 are bored. Their favorite pastime is being invited to a restaurant by older men and then quickly turning them down. Tired of finding the world pointless, they decide to take the game to the extreme.

This wonderfully playful film by Czech director Věra Chytilová, which was banned after the crushing of the Prague Spring, was already a cult film in the 1960s: two anarchic women mess up pretty much everything, including themselves in the end. A punky, feminist, unbridled and crazy poem that is as psychedelic and pop as it is subversive and daring.

With an introduction by Dr. Frank Schmidt, art historian, TU Dresden