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Browse 42 movies from Krátký film Praha – Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu Praha
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
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 young woman dates a number of men according to their car size. But the larger the car gets, the older the man becomes. Abandoned by her last partner, she re-does the journey in reverse only to find all the spaces taken.
Jan 1962
Jan 1961
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
Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
Sep 1966
A modern fairy-tale about Otýlie, a girl who each time she writes something gets all dirty from the ink. One day her teacher wants to clean her with an eradicator and otylie disappears. She is happy to be invisible but due to blots she becomes an ordinary girl again.
Feb 1966
The trusting birds Kohác fall into a trap set by a cunning cat. Will they manage to escape?
A look at the series of sacrifices of a man who wants to save up for his object of desire: an automobile.
May 1964
A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
Jun 1967
Bad moods, denial and constant resentment are spreading like an epidemic, gradually transferring from the individual to the entire society.
Mar 1961
Jan 1960
Animated story of a sad magician
Nov 1965
The third episode of the series "Hey, Mister, let's play", in which the heroes are two bears, one foxy and the other naive. In this episode the big bear out-smarts the small one by convincing him that the fish he caught is a spellbound princess.
Mar 1967
Pilot of the series "Hey, Mister, Let's Play". The story of two bears, the older one is experienced and sly, the younger is naive and gullible. This is the story of how they met in the Czech town of Kolín.
May 1966
A satiric film that through a lecture of a cracked brain pedant describes the increasing disobedience of children. It calls us for protection against misbehaved children and wants to "defend" the world of adults from disastrous consequences of the ungrateful children's deeds. The film is remarkable for the inimitable humor of Milos Macourek.
Apr 1966
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.
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
Zdeněk Miler's animation short about geometrical shapes.
Jan 1965