Directing
Surrealistic short animation by Hermína Týrlová.
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.
Puppet animated movie about an evil king, a golden-haired princess and living and dead water based on the fairy tale by Josef Kaynar.
Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’
Puppet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
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A romantic story between two wool skeins.
A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he had sent to a convent a long time ago. But only the youngest one is able to forgive him and she is willing to take care of him despite the threat of expulsion from the order.
The boys find a Turkish chess machine in the museum's storerooms and win a magic crystal with which they can subdue objects to their will. A doll, a puck at a match of their favorite hockey team.... And even a teacher.
Children with their musical instruments are able to drive lazy Martin out of the furnace and punish him for his laziness.
A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events of 1848 in Austria-Hungary, when Štúr, as a member of the Diet, led the fight for the national rights of the Slovak people.
