Ester Krumbachová (1923–1996) directed only one film, The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970). Yet the Czech director, screenwriter, costume designer, and artist left a significant imprint on a number of Czechoslovak New Wave classics. The best-known among these is Sedmikrásky (Daisies) (1966), on whose screenplay she collaborated with director Věra Chytilová. The creative duo later managed to reunite for The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983), but from the period starting in 1972—amid the delayed aftermath of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, which put an end to the relative creative