Vladimír Malík
Birth : 1931-01-21, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
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Slovak film director, artist, animator and executive producer. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, but from the age of seventeen he devoted himself to animated films. He is the director of the animated films Automata (1985), Great Cleaning (1986), the animated television series Why... (1994 - 2000), Tales of King Fiškus (1995 - 1996). In the years 1987 - 1992, he made a series of co-produced animated films about babies – Baby in the Amusement Park (1987), Baby in the Bank, Baby in the Candy Store (1988), Baby in the Factory, Baby in the Cosmodrome (1990), Baby in the Mountains (1992). He received a number of awards for his work and participated with them in film and television festivals at home and abroad. In 1994, Vladimír Malík founded a private production company - Studio Domček. He works as a teacher in the Studio of Animated Creation at the Faculty of Film and Television of the VŠMU in Bratislava.
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An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards.
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The second part of the Kafka trilogy. In the evening, the fluffy bookmaker arrives at his home, in the elevator engine room, and finds an immense, humming egg on his table.
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Happened in Prague on a cold February evening, 1917: the poor violinist's atrium runs out of coal and his dancing mouse becomes ill. The coal bucket is empty, and without sparing any effort, the faithful bucket rides its master through the air towards the home of the carbon trader...
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A mischievous baby embarks on death-defying adventures in the world of adults
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A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess.
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A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess.
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A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
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A short film by the Czech animator Vaclav Mergl.
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A three-part depiction of various forms of communication.
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Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.
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An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles - often seen from above: an espresso cup, a stairwell, the pills, and the records spinning. At the dance where the music plays, the rhythms evoke images of a butcher slicing head cheese, gears driving other wheels and levers, a combine churning out bales of hay, a butcher cutting chunks of meat for a stew, and boxers punching. The circle of music and life.
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Short movie by Bretislav Pojar
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Short film made by Bretislav Pojar
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The fifth and last episode of the "Who threw that, gentlemen?" series. The series is the continuation of the previous "bear" series "Hey, Mister, let's play?". This time the bears decide to grow carrots and turnips. While working they come across a billy-goat who wants to relieve them of their crop. The bears force him to return the carrots and turnips and to carry all the crops back to their home.
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Astronauts landing on an unknown planet are overcome with greed evoked by all-consuming amoebas transformed into gemstones. The greed kills the entire crew and the amoebas can take over their ship and eventually Earth. Among other techniques, Mergl uses animated xylographic illustrations and the film‘s uniqueness is underscored by its soundtrack.
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A stop-motion Sisyphus is overwhelmed by the Czechoslovakian bureaucracy.
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A fable on the futility of progress for its own sake.
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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.
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The second part of the six-part series “Hey, Mister, Let’s Play”. The bears try go to the water, and the big bear is good and makes himself a car for the little bear.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A stop-motion film with no dialogue. A musician is playing his musicc to some animals, when an hungry lion shows up.
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Puppet film-fairy tale in an entertaining form teaches viewers to ski correctly, to overcome steep hills.
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Film by Václav Gajer.
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