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A Bagful of Fleas

Daisies • 45m

Directed by Věra Chytilová • 1962 • Czechoslovakia

The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women finding freedom and joy amid the rigid conformity of life in a communal factory dormitory.

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