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Browse 41 movies from Krátký film Praha – Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu Praha
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
Jan 1961
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.
This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics of the French song "Plaisir d'amour."
Jan 1966
A Berlinale Forum of New Cinema award winning feature.
Jan 1979
Mar 1961
Jun 1964
Zdeněk Miler's animation short about geometrical shapes.
Jan 1965
Jan 1960
Ingratitude rules the world... A puppet animated film based on a short story by Jaroslav Hašek.
A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.
Oct 1965
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.
Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
Sep 1966
A little boy who is unable to count goes off to the crazy planet where arithmetic doesn’t exist. After many adventures, he goes back to school to learn.
Jan 1964
Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother’s loving arms again. Trnka’s artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
Feb 1963
Animated story of a sad magician
Nov 1965
A look at the series of sacrifices of a man who wants to save up for his object of desire: an automobile.
May 1964
Bad moods, denial and constant resentment are spreading like an epidemic, gradually transferring from the individual to the entire society.
Jan 1962
The first puppet film shot in CinemaScope. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
Sep 1959