Karel Štrebl

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

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。

La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechoslovakia and directed by Eduard Hofman. It is adapted from a series of five books by Jean Effel, a French caricaturist and illustrator. The visual style is adapted from his drawings. The film is a comedy about the creation of the universe in six days, with the devil messing around and contributing in his own way.

Adaption of the Antonin Dvorak opera Čert a Káča (The Devil and Kate), Op. 112, B.201, based on a farce by Josef Kajetán Tyl.

While all the inhabitants of a small rural village are working hard to survive the harsh daily routine, the mayor and his wife are gorging themselves to death. Without generosity, they even refuse alms to a penniless old lady. Among the hard workers trying to subsist, a little girl works courageously to help her exhausted mother. One day, during her lunch break, she goes into the forest to fill her cup of water in a river. There, a poor old lady asks for alms from the young lady, having nothing but her little piece of bread, willingly offers it to her. It is then that the old lady, as a reward, enchants the cup of the little girl ...

A young aristocrat is madly in love with an inventor, but her parents arrange her marriage to an old army general.

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague occupation SS troops in World War II. —kratkyfilm.cz