Animation
A stop-motion Sisyphus is overwhelmed by the Czechoslovakian bureaucracy.
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A stop-motion Sisyphus is overwhelmed by the Czechoslovakian bureaucracy.
Special Effects
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
Screenplay
Director
Director
The story of how Bill Black after a train robbery outwits his pursuers and the sheriff.
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Puppet film-fairy tale in an entertaining form teaches viewers to ski correctly, to overcome steep hills.
Director
Puppet film-fairy tale in an entertaining form teaches viewers to ski correctly, to overcome steep hills.
Animation
Animation
Animation
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)
Animation
Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.
Animation
Animation
A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, Bivoj, Libuse, Premysl, Girls War, Horymir, Lucka War.
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Animation
A poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfil three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfils two of his three wishes. However, she refuses to fulfil the third one, the last one in which the fisherman’s wife wants to be equal to God.
Animation
Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.
