Ludvík Hájek

Documentary illustrating the classic principles of Byzantine iconography on the examples of sixteen icons from a museum of ancient Greek art.

A film about Slovak icons painted in the period of the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, when original Byzantine icon was ending in Slovak folk art.

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 mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.

Basada en el libro de Alois Jirásek, compuesto por numerosos mitos checos, narra la historia ancestral de la fundación de Checoslovaquia, una serie de episodios protagonizados por héroes, reyes y reinas. (FILMAFFINITY)

Adaptación de un cuento popular checo. Cuenta la historia de un joven que, protegido por el espíritu de su madre fallecida, debe llegar al castillo del Rey y liberar a sus tres hijas de varios espectros malvados que las atormentan. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

"Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s Kontrabasom". Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river while not far away a bass player leaves his two companions to go for a swim.

A barrel organ grinder meets the devil on a mysterious moonlit night in this haunted-house fable, which showcases Trnka’s atmospheric use of sound to conjure a macabre mood.

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.