Josef Menzel
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Římanka
This is one of three 15 minute cat films made by Bretislav Pojar in 1960-61. It features mime artist Ladislav Fialka as the painter Honza. He gets into all sorts of trouble when he has to look after two little kittens. It's a mixture of live action and animation. The other two films in the trilogy are Cat’s Promise Cat School Narrator Rudolf Deyl also provided the voice for the first series for Pojar’s Pojdte Pane films in the mid 60s.
Painting is for the Cats
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.
The Creation of the World
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Míša Kulička
A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.
The Choo-Choo Train
Children with their musical instruments are able to drive lazy Martin out of the furnace and punish him for his laziness.
Kalamajka
A cartoon that uses comic book drawings to show how many people contribute their work to making a poppy seed cake.
The Poppy Cake
An old woodblock train meets its shiny new electric replacement one Christmas Eve in this glowingly nostalgic stop-motion toy story, directed by Bretislav Pojar and featuring gorgeous design by Trnka.
The Midnight Adventure
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
Passion
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On a Cat's Word
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Jablůňka se zlatými jablky
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Všem nelze vyhovět
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Fikmik
The Faust legend retold with marionettes.
Johannes Doktor Faust
The shoemaker, Lájošek Cína, is a naive good-for-nothing with his heart on his sleeve, who, as the day grows long, never leaves his shop, where he also sleeps, and his only company is a small stray kitten. One day he is approached by a peculiar truck driver, Martin, who immediately adopts Lájošek as his new driver and becomes his life guide with a plan to rebuild his peaceful life from the ground up. In the Žižkov colony at Krejcárk he meets the charming Magda, with whom Lájošek falls in love and begins to live with her and her four children. Soon after, they are expecting their own and their life would seem ideal, but every happiness comes at a price...
Svatej z Krejcárku
Based on the fairy tale by the famous Czech writer Vaclav Beneš Třebizký.