Zdena Škapová
Zdena Škapová
Professor, FAMU Prague Film School
Czech Republic
Voted in the critics poll
Czech Republic
Voted in the critics poll
Voted for:
| 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
| Closely Observed Trains | 1966 | Jiří Menzel |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen |
| Naked Island, The | 1961 | Shindo Kaneto |
| Marketa Lazarová | 1967 | Frantisek Vlácil |
| Mirror | 1974 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Padre padrone | 1977 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani |
| Sporting Life, The | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson |
| Tree of Wooden Clogs, The | 1978 | Ermano Olmi |
| Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |

Comments
My choice is the result of a mixture of films that represent the aesthetic pinnacles of achievement and of those that have had the biggest impact on my own view of cinema. I rate them for the depth of their serious and highly concentrated insight into human interiors and existence.