Ester Krumbachová
| Ester Krumbachová | |
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| Born |
12 November 1923 Brno, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 13 January 1996 (aged 72) Prague, Czech Republic |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, Costume Designer |
| Years active | 1961–1996 |
| Spouse(s) | Slavicek Pisarik Jan Němec (m. 1963–68) |
Ester Krumbachová (12 November 1923 – 13 January 1996) was a Czech screenwriter and costume designer. She is best known for her collaborations with Czech New Wave directors Věra Chytilová and Jan Němec. Němec described her as his "muse".
Ester Krumbachová was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She went to college and worked on local theater productions in České Budějovice before moving to Prague in the early 1960s. She began to work in the film industry in 1961.
She worked as a costume designer on the film Diamonds of the Night (1964) with then-husband and director Jan Němec; this was her first collaboration with Němec. Her first addition to a script was on Zbyněk Brynych's Holocaust film The Fifth Horseman is Fear (1965). However, this credit is masked by her only being listed the film's costume designer. Her major script contribution was on the screenplay for Němec's A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966). The film is based on a novella by Krumbachová. Eventually, she would be banned from film making because of her involvement with A Report on the Party and the Guests.
In 1966, she worked on Daisies as a costume designer and writer; this was her first screenplay with Věra Chytilová, a long time collaborator. She would work on two more films with Chytilová, Fruit of Paradise (1970) and Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne (1983).
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