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Caterwauling

Mr and Mrs K’s cat describes the strange behaviour of its masters with the help of a fable about a mouse headed towards a trap.

  • Czechoslovakia
  • 1960, 10 min
  • Director of photography: Petr Mareš
  • Screenplay: Věra Chytilová
  • Music: Jan Klusák
  • Cast: Miloš Kopecký, Libuše Havelková, Jaromír Vomáčka
  • Production: Studio FAMU


Věra Chytilová (1929, Czech Republic) graduated from FAMU in 1962 with the short film The Ceiling. Her films, A Bag of Fleas (1963), Daisies (1966) or Fruit of Paradise (1969), made her an icon of the Czech New Wave. Even though she was not allowed to make films during the six years of “normalization,” she held onto her unique style reflected in Panelstory (1979), Calamity (1981), The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983), The Jester and the Queen (1987) or A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1988). Over the past twenty years, she has maintained an artistically, aesthetically and socially subversive tone that has often stirred controversy.