Jiří Vaněk

Rosa & Dara and Their Great Adventures (2015)

Rosa and Dara recount their fantastic summer adventures, chasing down their grandparents' runaway cows in spots around the world. ...

The Country Doctor (1996)

An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards. ...

The Maiden and the Soldier (1995)

A strikingly realized puppet tale, based on an old folk ballad of a maiden who sets out to search for her lost fiancé in the turmoils of war. The beloved is found in a stationary hospital where the Grim Reaper is preparing for his gloomy task. It was insp ...

The Chamber Stork (1994)

The second part of the Kafka trilogy. In the evening, the fluffy bookmaker arrives at his home, in the elevator engine room, and finds an immense, humming egg on his table. ...

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Láda (1994)

Lada is a product of "educational" or "corrective" institutions. Not only is he not educated or corrected, he simply does not understand anything about life. He solves his problems in his own way – by swallowing sharp objects. ...

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Martin (1994)

"The whole film talks about the time when I was first locked up, from sixteen till now, I'm 22 now, and during that whole time I was out maybe five months, and I've really had it by now. It's also about why I'd given my life to Jesus Christ and then failed ...

Tisíc a jedna noc (1993)

Kašpar (1993)

Rider on a Bucket (1992)

Happened in Prague on a cold February evening, 1917: the poor violinist's atrium runs out of coal and his dancing mouse becomes ill. The coal bucket is empty, and without sparing any effort, the faithful bucket rides its master through the air towards the ...

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Pavlína (1992)

Pavlina is a drug addict imprisoned, as well as her boyfriend, for illegal drug manufacturing. They meet again after the amnesty and the vicious circle of drugs starts rolling again. ...

Stvořil jsem tebe (1991)

Propast (1982)

It's New Year's Eve afternoon and Honza, Jana and Zdeněk decide to go out into the karst area. Despite the express ban, one of them goes down into an unknown underground tunnel. When he doesn't return for a long time, the others go looking for him. But th ...

Leonardo's Diary (1972)

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes. ...

Jabberwocky (1971)

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Ca ...

Sochařka z Poličky (1970)

A Quiet Week in the House (1969)

A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision. ...

About the Old Dog Bodřík (1969)

Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves. But when his master decides it's time to get a younger dog to guard the farm, Bodřík is sent to stay in the junkyard. The first night without Bod� ...

The Flat (1968)

A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature. ...

Příliš mnoho něhy (1968)

An animated lecture that totally overthrows the idea of the tender character of women and violent character of men. It proves that the reality is different. ...

The Lighthouse Keeper (1968)

A puppet story about a lighthouse keeper who saves a paper boat while a real ship is sinking nearby. ...

Et cetera (1967)

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house. ...

Do Not Wake Up the Mammoths (1967)

A humorous modern fairy-tale about boys who woke up a mammoth in a school biology room and experienced a lot of adventures with it. After numerous events in which they discover the worst part of their act the boys eventually find out that going to school i ...

Punch and Judy (1966)

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig. ...

How to Obtain a Good Child (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 ungratef ...

Otylie and 1580 Blots (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 ...

The Hand (1965)

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, ...

Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose (1965)

Taken from Boccaccio's Decameron, this lovely puppet film tells the bawdy story of the beautiful young Venetian lady who confesses her sinful passion for the Archangel Gabriel to a lustful monk, who promptly impersonates him in her bedroom with predictable ...

Fikmik (1960)