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- DirectorJirí TrnkaThe second cartoon by Jirí Trnka that was a sensation at the festival in Cannes in 1946 when it defeated the world animation elite of the time. It is a musical fairy-tale based on a famous folk story about animals that deterred thieves. The picture finished the monopoly of Disney's style in animation and it started an impetuous development of European animation. The picture is one of the best in the world of animation.
- DirectorJirí BrdeckaJirí TrnkaAn animated short film in which chimney sweeper in spring enabled shoes is able to confound the German SS.
- DirectorJirí KrejcíkJirí TrnkaStarsFrantisek FilipovskýA short comedic film about a writer's attempt to produce the next big script.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaPuppet animation feature consisting of different segments related to the traditions and emotions of the seasons as a typical year passes among the Czech people.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaMilos MakovecStarsHelena PatockovaJaromir SobotoaDetsky pevecky sbor Jana KuhnaA Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaA barrel organ grinder meets the devil on a mysterious moonlit night in this haunted house fable, which showcases Trnka's atmospheric use of sound to conjure a macabre mood.
- DirectorJirí Trnka
- DirectorJirí TrnkaAn animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsDetsky pevecky sbor Jana KuhnaBayaya, a young peasant, protected by the spirit of his dead mother, arrives at the castle of the King, where he entertains his three daughters. He soon realizes that the three princesses are nagged by evil spirits. The little peasant manages to rid them of them, fights a duel with a wicked lord who wanted to marry one of the three princesses. He finally wins the heart of the youngest sister while saving the soul of his mother who was in purgatory.
- DirectorJirí Trnka
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsJan WerichA poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfill three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfills two of his three wishes. However, she refuses to fulfill the third one, the last one in which the fisherman's wife wants to be equal to God. Jirí Trnka made this picture according to Jan Werich's version of the tale with Werich himself as the narrator.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsZdenek StepánekEduard KohoutKarel HögerExcellent stop-motion animation film from one of the best Czech filmmakers, Jirí Trnka. It tells the ancient story of Bohemia, how it was founded by Czech, the Forefather, and a series of legendary episodes of heroes, queens and kings, inspired in a book by Alois Jirásek compiling the Czech myths.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsJan WerichVlasta BurianTwo mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsJan WerichAdapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka one of his biggest creative challenges. Trnka himself felt that the final episode was the most artistically successful, but there's much to enjoy in all three, not least the way that the lackadaisical layabout Svejk's own self-serving anecdotes are realized through cut-out animation.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsJosef SkupaHurvinek cannot go to a circus because he injured himself when sliding down the stair rail. He daydreams that he is an acrobat riding a scooter and an animal-trainer taming beasts.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsJoss AcklandAnn BellRichard BurtonThe first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaWe follow the life of a man, obsessed with being speedier than his surrounding people and objects since childhood, and the consequences such an obsession brings to him.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaStarsOtýlie BenískováJana WerichováTrnka's sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again. Trnka's artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaA delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop?
- DirectorJirí TrnkaA joyful puppet film based on a story from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It is a story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel. A story full of medieval humor which takes place in a bizarre atmosphere of medieval Venice. The puppets used in the picture are some of the most beautiful by Jirí Trnka.