Et cetera

Et cetera 1967

5.80

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.

1967

The Hand

The Hand 1965

7.40

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 alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.

1965

Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy 1966

6.40

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

1966

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959

7.20

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 Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.

1959

Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin

Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin 1966

8.70

Pilot of the series "Hey, Mister, Let's Play". The story of two bears, the older one is experienced and sly, the younger is naive and gullible. This is the story of how they met in the Czech town of Kolín.

1966

The Lion and the Song

The Lion and the Song 1959

6.60

A stop-motion film with no dialogue. A musician is playing his musicc to some animals, when an hungry lion shows up.

1959

Passion

Passion 1961

6.50

The passion for high speed can nowadays almost be seen in the new-born. The film shows that such passion, if not controlled, is self-destructing and even suicidal. At least this is the way Trnka presents it in this satiric story. —kratkyfilm.cz

1961

Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose

Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose 1965

5.80

Taken from Boccaccio's Decameron, this lovely puppet film tells the bawdy story of the beautiful young Venetian lady who confesses her sinful passion for the Archangel Gabriel to a lustful monk, who promptly impersonates him in her bedroom with predictable results. Amidst the film's ribaldry, the hypocrisy and false piety of the monk are mercilessly mocked.

1965

Painting is for the Cats

Painting is for the Cats 1961

1

This is one of three 15 minute cat films made by Bretislav Pojar in 1960-61. It features mime artist Ladislav Fialka as the painter Honza. He gets into all sorts of trouble when he has to look after two little kittens. It's a mixture of live action and animation. The other two films in the trilogy are Cat’s Promise Cat School Narrator Rudolf Deyl also provided the voice for the first series for Pojar’s Pojdte Pane films in the mid 60s.

1961

Cybernetic Grandma

Cybernetic Grandma 1963

6.00

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.

1963

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At 1967

6.00

The third episode of the series "Hey, Mister, let's play", in which the heroes are two bears, one foxy and the other naive. In this episode the big bear out-smarts the small one by convincing him that the fish he caught is a spellbound princess.

1967

Joy of Love

Joy of Love 1966

6.00

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics of the French song "Plaisir d'amour."

1966

Crazy Planet

Crazy Planet 1964

1

A little boy who is unable to count goes off to the crazy planet where arithmetic doesn’t exist. After many adventures, he goes back to school to learn.

1964

Otylie and 1580 Blots

Otylie and 1580 Blots 1966

1

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.

1966

The Parasite

The Parasite 1961

1

Two linear characters typical of Émile Cohl are situated in the same frame, in different coloured rectangles making up their respective settings. One is good, the other is bad and lives off the first.

1961