Marta Látalová

Feature film compiled from the animated short films of Krtek the Mole from 1963-1975.

A courtship journey of Mr. Pip

Surreal short animation about a clever girl with an amazing memory. Things go well for her until she can't remember facts about polar bears for a school project.

One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with the topic of implacability of human optimism and fantasy. In a sad manner it tells us a humorous story of a man living double life: one of a beaten little clerk, humiliated by his arrogant boss, imperious wife and misbehaved descendant; the other of a spoiled hero of a dream empire full of beautiful and tender women, flowers and fantastic figures. From artistic point of view is the film based on Adolf Born's lithographs.

A humorous criminal story about a dog that knew how to read, appreciated classical music and spoke a foreign language. His primitive master hates his dog's superiority and tries to liquidate it physically.

A man has troubles with chickens.

The world is made up of yellow people, who turn green if they accept a bribe. As the world becomes increasingly full of green people, everyone turns their attention towards the one hat shop girl who refuses to be corrupted.

An episode of the children's series about a little Mole. This story tells how the little Mole became a great experimenter in the field of chemistry for a while.

One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with an important ethical issue of matrimony when one of the partners leaves the other after many years of living together. The concept of the picture is humorous exaggeration, it is full of observations and also a wise view on the problem of gratitude and ungratefulness.

A morality play about human fantasy losing its creativity if it becomes a means of making money. In this film it is the ability of a boy to create colored "nonsense" that becomes a trade for his parents. The colored clouds of the little boy produced on the basis of orders eventually change to gray cubes.

Adapting a 1930s song, Brdečka presents a ballad of true love between a miner and his sweetheart in a tale that ends in tragedy.

仏のSF作家ステファン・ウルの長編小説を、マンガ家ローラン・トポールの絵でアニメ化した異色のファンタジー作品。未開の惑星イガムを舞台に人間型のオム族と、彼らを奴隷のように扱うドラーグ族の戦いと協調を描く。SF的イマジネーションの凄さと特異なアニメーション映像には目を見張るものがある。

仏のSF作家ステファン・ウルの長編小説を、マンガ家ローラン・トポールの絵でアニメ化した異色のファンタジー作品。未開の惑星イガムを舞台に人間型のオム族と、彼らを奴隷のように扱うドラーグ族の戦いと協調を描く。SF的イマジネーションの凄さと特異なアニメーション映像には目を見張るものがある。

An experimental study in black and white tracing the stages of human life through the transformation of a man’s face.

Zdeněk Miler's animation short about geometrical shapes.

(The Little Mole and the Car), Krtek finds a broken toy car a child has discarded, and slowly puts it back together. There is a level of moral instruction to this: as the little mole carefully repairs the toy, children are cautioned about the wastefulness of city life and mass consumption, but also encouraged to learn how things work. The automobiles function as an allegory for the larger mechanized world, and how it is at odds with the natural one

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden. The teacher thinks he has discovered a new species and christens it with his own name.

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.