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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
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El primer kinescopio de títeres del mundo. Se basa en la famosa comedia poética de William Shakespeare . Tres mundos se encuentran en esta historia: el noble mundo de tres parejas de Atenas, un mundo popular común de comerciantes de teatro amateur y una felicidad de cuento de hadas de criaturas mágicas como elfos y ninfas. La película es considerada la obra más destacada de Jirí Trnka y un hito en la historia del mundo de la animación.
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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)
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Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.
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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)
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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)
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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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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.
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An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.
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"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.
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The first full-length puppet film made by Jiri Trnka. Like the painter Ales who illustrated the national songs, Trnka depicts the traditional customs and tales of the Czech village in six separate sequences: Shrovetide, Spring, Legend About St. Prokop, The Fair, The Feast and Bethlehem." A Treasury of Fairy-tales" made Trnka famous all over the world and it is a masterpiece of Czech and world animation.
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