The voice of women is largely absent from Central European cinema. The female directors that there are present a view of life which is decidedly rooted in male conceptions of gender and sexuality.
One interesting example of this phenomenon is Nic (Nothing, 1998), the latest film from Dorota Kedzierzawska, the rising star of the 1990s Polish film industry.

Women have not been immune to the polarisation of Hungarian society that has occurred since the collapse of Communism. The appearance of Cosmopolitan, with its energetic optimism and unapologetic materialism, gave women a new voice, new values, new role models to aspire to. But..

Some Western feminists, especially those who invested their efforts in attempting to assist Czech women, went away with largely unfulfilled expectations. The differences between the histories, cultures, social norms, expectations and daily realities in the lives of Western European and American women on one hand and Czech women on the other have served to clarify the misunderstanding.

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