Stanislav Látal

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York (1982)

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe's life before and after his stay on the island. Following the principle of setting the novel right, it describes Crusoe's experiences with delicate irony and understan ...

Rübezahl und der Schuster (1976)

Animated fairy tale about the mountain ghost Rübezahl and his dealing with a thieving shoemaker. ...

Sochařka z Poličky (1970)

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cybernetic Grandma (1963)

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, howev ...

Fikmik (1960)

The Midnight Adventure (1960)

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. ...

Červená aerovka (1960)

A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)

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 happin ...

Paraplíčko (1957)

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Story of the Bass Cello (1956)

"Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s Kontrabasom". Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river while not far away a bass player leaves his two ...

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase (1956)

Kuťásek a Kutilka na pouti (1956)

Health campaigner encourages children to live a healthy lifestyle. The film combines live action with puppetry and animated dolls. ...

Liška a vlk (1956)

Based on the fairy tale by the famous Czech writer Vaclav Beneš Třebizký. ...

The Hurvinek Circus (1955)

Hurvinek cannot go to a circus because he injured himself when sliding down the stair rail. He daydreams that he is an acrobat riding a scooter and an animal-trainer taming beasts. ...

Two Little Frosts (1955)

Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale. ...

A Drop Too Much (1954)

A careful motorcyclist stops by a cozy pub on his way home to his sweetheart. ...

Psí starosti (1954)

Old Czech Legends (1953)

A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, Bivoj, Libuse, Premysl, Girls War, Horymir, Lucka War. ...

The Gingerbread House (1951)

Prince Bayaya (1951)

Bayaya, a young peasant, protected by the spirit of his dead mother, arrives at the castle of the King, where he entertains his three daughters. He soon realizes that the three princesses are nagged by evil spirits. The little peasant manages to rid them o ...

The Merry Circus (1951)

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era. ...

The Emperor's Nightingale (1949)

Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health. ...

The Devil's Mill (1949)

A barrel organ grinder meets the devil on a mysterious moonlit night in this haunted-house fable, which showcases Trnka's atmospheric use of sound to conjure a macabre mood. ...

Song of the Prairie (1949)

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved. ...

Šváb (1948)

The Czech Year (1947)

The first full-length puppet film made by Jiri Trnka. Like the painter Ales who illustrated the national songs, Trnka depicts the traditional customs and tales of the Czech village in six separate sequences: Shrovetide, Spring, Legend About St. Prokop, The ...

The Animals and the Brigands (1947)

The second cartoon by Jiri Trnka that was a sensation at the festival in Cannes in 1946 when it defeated the world animation elite of the time. It is a musical fairy-tale based on a famous folk story about animals that deterred thieves. ...

Liška a džbán (1947)

A fable about a fox who wanted to drown a pitcher to get revenge on him. ...

Vodník ve mlýně (1947)

The Mischievous Bunny (1947)

A grotesque story about the mischievous bunny's antics while decorating Easter eggs. ...

Springman and the SS (1946)

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II. ...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1943)

Skutečnost Noci svatojánské (1959)

Loutky Jiřího Trnky (1956)