Ester Krumbachová - a costume designer, screenwriter, director; one of the boldest personalities of the Czech New Wave. She worked in theatre, she was a writer and an illustrator. She co-created films such as
La fiesta y los invitados (1966),
Las margaritas (1966),
Vsichni dobrí rodáci (1969),
Pension pro svobodné pány (1968),
Valerie y su Semana de las Maravillas (1970),
Slamený klobouk (1972) and many others. In the 1960s, she was a 'pivot' of the art scene in Prague, attracting artists who were on the threshold of their career, just setting out to find their own form of self-realization. Those who underwent her tutelage remember her forever. Director
Vera Chytilová talks to those who knew
Ester Krumbachová, who worked with her, befriended her, loved her. She sets off on a search that is to end by answering the question: Who was Ester?
—Czech film center 