Recently viewing two films by auteur Karel Zeman I decided to check if I had any other Czech animated films waiting to be viewed. Taking part in ICM's 50's Viewing Challenge the same time as the Eastern European one,I was pleased to find a non-Zeman Czech cartoon title from the 50's,which led to me seeing the legends come to life.
View on the film:
Sowing together various Czech folk tales,co-writer/(with Alois Jirasek/Jiri Brdecka & Milos Vaclav Kratochvíl ) director Jiri Trnka gives little in establishing the stories for viewers not familiar with their origins, where the extended narrations go more into detail over what is being shown on screen, rather than using narrations to bring clarity to the blended in tales. Backed by a biblical operatic score, the stop-motion animation style of Jiri Trnka walks close to style later used in Bible Tales cartoons shown in RE, in the large puppets moving with a rough, jerky stop/start motion in re-telling of these old Czech tales.
View on the film:
Sowing together various Czech folk tales,co-writer/(with Alois Jirasek/Jiri Brdecka & Milos Vaclav Kratochvíl ) director Jiri Trnka gives little in establishing the stories for viewers not familiar with their origins, where the extended narrations go more into detail over what is being shown on screen, rather than using narrations to bring clarity to the blended in tales. Backed by a biblical operatic score, the stop-motion animation style of Jiri Trnka walks close to style later used in Bible Tales cartoons shown in RE, in the large puppets moving with a rough, jerky stop/start motion in re-telling of these old Czech tales.