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Jiří Trnka
A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka specialized in puppet animation, a traditional Czech art form, of which he became the undisputed master. He also created animated cartoons, but it was his puppet animation that made him an internationally recognized artist and the winner of film festival awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.
As director
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
The Hand
Cybernetic Grandma
Passion
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Why UNESCO?
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
The Good Soldier Svejk
Two Little Frosts
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
The Hurvinek Circus
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
Kutasek and Kutilka
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
Old Czech Legends
Prince Bayaya
The Golden Fish
The Merry Circus
Story of the Bass Cello
Song of the Prairie
The Devil's Mill
The Emperor's Nightingale
The Animals and the Brigands
The Czech Year
The Gift
Springman and the SS
Grandpa Planted a Beet
