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- 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 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.
- 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 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.
- A humorous story warning against too much mechanization and automation. The hero of the picture works in a factory producing automatic machines. During the lunch break he lets the machines to serve, entertain and frighten him and eventually himself as a robot automate continues working.
- The cheerful film story is the debut of the author of the famous stories about Dorothy, Bozena Mozísová. It is based on a modern fairy-tale by Milos Macourek about two children who found a topper, took it to school and created a lot of fantastic and complicated situations with it.
- A tragicomic paraphrase of Darwin's theory of evolution. The rain worm evolves into man - Homo Sapiens - and is able to destroy both himself and his fellows in a very perfect way. Later he turns back into a rain worm which happily disappears into its safe hole in the ground.
- A humorous modern fairy-tale about boys who woke up a mammoth in a school biology room and experienced a lot of adventures with it. After numerous events in which they discover the worst part of their act the boys eventually find out that going to school is quite nice.
- A full-length picture based on the famous novel by Daniel Defoe. The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe's life before and after his stay on the island. Following the principle of setting the novel right, it describes Crusoe's experiences with delicate irony and understanding.
- This film was made as a kind of a "protest-song" against the panic fear of getting old and also against flirtation. The main character (played by Leos Sucharípa) is an elderly man, admittedly competent, but not very responsible. In the continuous fear, he is trying to do as much as he can but, instead of confidence, he only finds out that in the real life one cannot just take but must give as well. Last but not least, one must be able to resign to his age.
- A film version of a novel by Jaroslav Havlícek, one of the leading representatives of Czech psychological prose. The film is a romantic story set in a small South-Bohemian town at the end of the last century, where an impressionable adolescent boy Enil (Jakub Marek)falls in love for the first time - and then into depths of despair.
- A satiric film that through a lecture of a cracked brain pedant describes the increasing disobedience of children. It calls us for protection against misbehaved children and wants to "defend" the world of adults from disastrous consequences of the ungrateful children's deeds. The film is remarkable for the inimitable humor of Milos Macourek.
- One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with an important ethical issue of matrimony when one of the partners leaves the other after many years of living together. The concept of the picture is humorous exaggeration, it is full of observations and also a wise view on the problem of gratitude and ungratefulness.
- One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with the topic of implacability of human optimism and fantasy. In a sad manner it tells us a humorous story of a man living double life: one of a beaten little clerk, humiliated by his arrogant boss, imperious wife and misbehaved descendant; the other of a spoiled hero of a dream empire full of beautiful and tender women, flowers and fantastic figures. From artistic point of view is the film based on Adolf Born's lithographs.
- A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him, they rob and kill him. After they find out the truth they kill themselves, too. The picture revives the charm of the ancient songs and their naive illustrations.
- The film created between 1977 and 1985 is in fact a compilation of cuttings from dozens of recorded public concerts, informal interviews and glimpses into the personal life of the greatest Czech post-war pop-music star - Karel Gott - who has won the national award of "Zlatý slavík" (Golden Nightingale) 20 times. It is also a confession of a man who got everything he ever wanted and delightfully values both his professional and personal life.
- Trnka'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.
- Edited full-length picture about the most famous Czech third-year pupils. It is composed from the original seven episodes of the series that became very popular among both children and adults. The seven episodes are joined by short sequences and ended with a brand new story called "The Repeaters".
- A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (Milan Steindler)stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit of that time by connecting Mozart's music with the architecture of Prague and by pointing up the changes in Prague during Mozart's two-hundred absence in the Czech metropolis.
- In 1964, Jan Spáta created his documentary called Nejvetsí prání (1964), an enquette about the desires of the young generation. It was a time of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia and thus also a time of beautiful visons and desires. In 1969, the film was banned. Jan Spata came back to his "Greatest Wish" in 1990 and created a feature documentary comparing that period with the 1989 events. He even found some people interviewed in 1964 and asked them to speak again, now being 25 years older.
- A morality play about human fantasy losing its creativity if it becomes a means of making money. In this film it is the ability of a boy to create colored "nonsense" that becomes a trade for his parents. The colored clouds of the little boy produced on the basis of orders eventually change to gray cubes.
- A picture based on a fairy-tale Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen. Malenka is a flower-dwarf girl born far from her kin. After a number of adventures that make her face challenges of her life and fate she eventually gets to the land of dwarfs and marries a dwarf prince.
- A modern fairy-tale about a blue pot that has become useless for his owner as a hole appeared in the pot's bottom. The liquids that were pouring from it changed into a stream that became a river with steamboats on it. Eventually the owner had the hole fixed and the pot got back on the oven.
- A classical story about a bad stepmother, good girl Maruska, the cat king named Miaow and about the evil that's punished and the good that's rewarded. The picture is particular for its gentle humor easily understandable by the children audience.
- Adaptation of a social tale by Jirí Wolker - a classical piece of Czech animated cinematography. A millionaire who owns a whole town, its factories and workers, falls ill. The surgeons tell him that sunshine is the only cure for him. The millionaire orders the sun to be taken down from the sky and put in a metal enclosure to shine only for himself.
- One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town astronomical clock. Master Hanus'clock started working for the first time in 1490 but did not tell the time for too long. Soon the master, blinded by the perfidious town councilors, stopped it for more than 200 years.
- A fairy-tale inspired by a narration by the Brothers Grimm. The princess will only marry the one who will be able to hide himself so that she cannot find him. Nobody manages to do so but a young handsome huntsman. He gets both the princess for a wife and her kingdom.
- A film based on a literal work by a painter and writer Alois Mikulka. In a simple, understandable and colorful way, it tells us a story about a fisherman who never caught anything but, sitting with his rod and line, dreams about such beautiful adventures that no real catch would make any difference.
- A modern fairy-tale about Otýlie, a girl who each time she writes something gets all dirty from the ink. One day her teacher wants to clean her with an eradicator and otylie disappears. She is happy to be invisible but due to blots she becomes an ordinary girl again.
- The story takes place in the second half of the eighties. The regime of power is tired, but any changes are out of sight. Some people are trying to find their asylum in their privacy, some defect. Who is not willing to get adapted, lives at the outskirts of the society. So, for example, the forty-year old intellectual Ewald (György Cserhalmi)can not perform his profession, as he could not comply with requirements of the political regime. He earns his living just to sustain, and at the moment he is assigned to measure the capacity of water bore in the vicinity of the fortress. He lives in a caravan-trailer, measures the yield of the water source, and makes friends with the head officer of the fortress (Miroslav Donutil). Their friendship is a strange, unusual relation of two men of different characters, linked by a feeling of loneliness, need of sincerity and even a mutual respect, which stems from understanding each other.
- Film based on the story by the French writer Gerard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers. The magician Conin enchants evil that afterwards destroys him and a shy love-lorn young man named Eustach.
- The film captures the excited political atmosphere in March 1968 Czechoslovakia when president Antonin Novotny stepped down and Ludvik Svoboda was elected a new president. The then top political figures are filmed during their day to day meetings, often during their personal conversations. Thus a mosaic of shots portraying the spirit of those times is created.
- A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots - crabs, based on the principle "the strongest survive", that would live on metal and would be an ideal diversionary weapon - finds his plans turned against him but it is too late to change it.
- 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 nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.
- The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
- A 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.
- Young English gentleman falls in love with beautiful Czech vampire.
- This film story is based on a famous song by Jaroslav Jezek sung by Jan Werich. It is about a water sprite who through a water pipe gets to modern times. He finds out that in a new world full of prohibitions, regulations, simply bureaucracy such an extraordinary creature as a water sprite cannot live.
- Modern fairy-tale about a girl whose grandmother pulled her ears every now and then. Cecilia's ears were as big as sails. One day the short-sighted grandmother confused Cecilia's ears with pie dough. Cecilia, not to have her ears baked, flew away to Africa where she made friends with elephants and launched a musical group with them. She returned home as a famous singer.
- A classical cartoon that contributed to the special character of Czech animation. It is a humorous story in the style of art nouveau about love that overcomes all obstacles and recognizes no limits. The film is based on Kamil Lhotak's pictures and the content is adjusted to their specific milieu.
- The story of several couples followed for 6 years from their wedding on seeks to explore the causes and impacts of divorce. The story of Marcela and Jiri shows the course their relationship took, controversies in their characters and, most of all, the grave housing conditions that resulted in misunderstandings and, shortly after a child is born, in a divorce situation. A coming solution, however, prevented the marriage from breaking down.
- An excellently ironic morality story which deals with the difficult situation of a woman in a temporary family. In an exaggerated way the woman sets herself free and starts to fly independently and in the same independent manner she volunteers to go back to her kitchen and slavery.
- The 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.