Edgar Dutka

Edgar Dutka

Nacimiento : 1941-05-21, Vídeňské Nové Město, Rakousko

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Edgar Dutka

Películas

The Pit
Script Editor
In a desolate landscape process strange creatures. The foreman of the group picks a suitable spot and the whole multiplying colony starts excavating a pit. They encounter various natural disasters that ruin their efforts – but the colonists always rise from the ruins and continue their work. We do unequivocally sympathise… till the moment when we return to the people’s daily lives.
The Pit
Story
In a desolate landscape process strange creatures. The foreman of the group picks a suitable spot and the whole multiplying colony starts excavating a pit. They encounter various natural disasters that ruin their efforts – but the colonists always rise from the ruins and continue their work. We do unequivocally sympathise… till the moment when we return to the people’s daily lives.
Jiří Trnka: A Long Lost Friend
Himself
A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of the 20th century and one of the founders of the puppet animation. His work demonstrated the world that communist society can provide better conditions for extraordinary artistic creations. The ideological clash between West and East didn’t leave children and their stories apart from their struggle in ideological and political positions.
Výměna rolí
Dramaturgy
Laika
Dramaturgy
Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a number of animals follow that are hurriedly launched from Houston and Baikonur. The animals travel astray, but finally manage, with the help of a black hole, to colonize a faraway planet. After a short period of harmonious, undisturbed co-existence with indigenous life forms, however, first human cosmonaut run ashore on their planet, and their harmonious life, indeed their very survival, are suddenly in jeopardy.
Flower Buds
Dušánek
Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals. Agata wants a happy life far from home, fully aware that her only hope is to escape and therefore betray those close to her. Honza believes in the purity and power of love, regardless of the circumstances under which it is born. Kamila looks confidently to the future and does not intend to accept the misery of the present. The only Jarda knows that he will not change the world or himself. Aware of his weakness, he does not even try. In his mind, of course, his addiction to slot machines, which has led to a nearly impossible situation, is as certain as most gamblers' belief of an imminent win. The real and convincing attempt to rescue his family comes when it is too late. It is just a futile gesture, a desperate last ditch effort.
Aventuras en el desván
Screenplay
En 'Aventuras en el desván', los héroes son valientes juguetes que emprenden un peligroso viaje a través de una vieja y misteriosa buhardilla para rescatar a su amiga, una hermosa y rubia muñeca. Cuando las cosas no están nada bien, aparecen sus amigos para brindarles ayuda y rescatarla del malvado jefe del Imperio del Mal. Sorprendentemente, los trastos viejos que se encuentran en el ático, comienzan a transformarse en cosas nuevas, bonitas y mágicas.
Fimfárum Jana Wericha
Dramaturgy
Pelicula checa de animación con marionetas dirigida a un público adulto basada en las historias del escritor y actor Jan Werich. La película adapta cinco de esos cuentos: “Cuando las hojas caen del roble”, “Frankie Sinmiedo”, “Barka el Avaro”, “Un sueño cumplido” y “Fimfárum”. Los relatos están narrados a la manera de las antiguas fábulas, con un gran entendimiento de la naturaleza humana y de sus vicios, pero son modernas, irreverentes, divertidas, dulces y traviesas, y sus moralejas resultan sorprendentes.
I Met Him in the ZOO
Writer
There are two different boys in the zoo. Ivoš is a small wrestler who wanders himself in the barracks when a blind boy throws it and squeezes it with lemonade. Out of a primordial friendship will spring up. Both of them love animals, and Ivoš decides to involve Sleppo, as he tells him, into the common child's world. It sneezes it to the animals and allows him to touch the turtles, elephants or camel - the animals he knew at the time only by the sounds.
Club of the Laid Off
Writer
Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.
Shakespeare 2000
Screenplay
A satiric film travesty of Shakespeare's dramas set in the year 2000. The protagonists are to convince the audience that human passions such as love, hatred, jealousy, etc. remain unchanged even 500 years later (paralleling the up-to-date quality of Shakespeare's dramas).
Virile Games
Theatre Play
A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players then leave the football pitch and invade the spectator's flat...
The Tinderbox
Screenplay
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.
Maryshka and the Wolf's Castle
Screenplay
A fairy-tale about a brave, self-sacrificial and faithful girl named Maryska who sets free an enchanted princess and her twelve maids from a mysterious castle.