Jiří Trnka

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left ...

Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale. Release: Two Little Frosts 1953 tt0309540 ...

A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a ...

A barrel organ grinder meets the devil on a mysterious moonlit night in this haunted house fable, which showcases Trnka’s atmospheric use ...

An animated short film in which chimney sweeper in spring enabled shoes is able to confound the German SS. Release: The Chimney Sweep 1946 ...

Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. ...

First, I should admit that I watched Jirí Trnka’s “Cirkus Hurvínek” on YouTube and it didn’t have subtitles. I could ...

Bayaya, a young peasant, protected by the spirit of his dead mother, arrives at the castle of the King, where he entertains his three daughters. ...

A 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 ...

Adapting Jaroslav Hasek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet ...

The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the ...

A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, ...