Kytice

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Kytice
Directed by	F. A. Brabec
Produced by	Deana Jakubiskova-Horváthová
Written by	F. A. Brabec Karel Jaromír Erben (book)`
Music by	Jan Jirásek
Cinematography	F. A. Brabec
Editing by	Boris Machytka
Distributed by	Bontonfilm
Release date(s)	December 7, 2000
Running time	81 min.
Country	Czech Republic
Language	Czech
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Kytice (Czech for Bouquet; original full title was Kytice z pověstí národních - A Bouquet of National Legends) is a collection of ballads by the Czech author Karel Jaromír Erben, first published in 1853 and considered a classic. It is made up of 13 poems:

Kytice
Poklad (Treasure)
Svatební košile (The Wedding Shirts)
Polednice (Lady midday)
Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning-Wheel)
Štědrý den (Christmas Eve); made into a melodrama by Zdeněk Fibich
Holoubek (Little Dove)
Záhořovo lože (Záhoř's Bed)
Vodník (The Water-Goblin)
Vrba (Willow)
Lilie (Lily), added in the 1861 second edition
Dceřina kletba (Daughter's Curse)
Věštkyně (Seeress)

Kytice was a 1972 loose adaptation to a theatre musical by Jiří Suchý and Ferdinand Havlík (music), one of the most popular pieces in the history of his Semafor theatre.

Kytice (international title Wild Flowers) is also a 2000 Czech film directed by F. A. Brabec based on 7 best-known, most epic and least explicitly Christian of the poems; while relatively successful commercially, it was deplored by critics for its crude literalism of depiction.