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Paraplíčko 1957

Spejbl on the Trail 1956

The Good Soldier Schweik 1956 star_border 7.2
Adapting 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.

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase 1956

Kuťásek a Kutilka na pouti 1956

Liška a vlk 1956

The Hurvinek Circus 1955 star_border 6
Hurvinek 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. (MUBI)

Two Little Frosts 1955 star_border 6.5
Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku 1955

How the Old Man Traded It All Away 1954
Folk art–like hand-drawn stills illustrate this sweetly simple pastoral fable, in which a peasant comes into possession of a small fortune—but realizes there are treasures greater than gold.

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče 1954

A Drop Too Much 1954 star_border 5.8

O makovém koláči 1953

Old Czech Legends 1953 star_border 6.4
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, Bivoj, Libuse, Premysl, Girls War, Horymir, Lucka War.

The Gingerbread House 1951 star_border 6

Prince Bayaya 1951 star_border 5.4
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. 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.

The Merry Circus 1951 star_border 5.1
Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.

The Golden Fish 1951 star_border 5.7
A poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfil three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfils two of his three wishes. However, she refuses to fulfil the third one, the last one in which the fisherman’s wife wants to be equal to God.

The Emperor's Nightingale 1949 star_border 5.3
Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.

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