Directing
Jiří Trnka
1912-02-24 · Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
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.
Known for
The Hand
Lemonade Joe
The Emperor and the Golem
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Springman and the SS
A Midsummer's Night Dream
The Emperor's Nightingale
Song of the Prairie
Cybernetic Grandma
The Good Soldier Svejk
Story of the Bass Cello
Old Czech Legends
The Czech Year
Two Little Frosts
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Jan Hus
Movie credits · 54
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master
How to Catch a Tiger
Whale, Elahw
Of Mice in Tinfoil
About the Thick Fog
Jiří Trnka
Joy of Love
The Hand
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Lemonade Joe
Cybernetic Grandma
Zlý jelen
Passion
The Midnight Adventure
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
Why UNESCO?
Bomb Mania
Against All
Paraplíčko
To jsou Bratři v triku
Spejbl on the Trail
The Good Soldier Svejk
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
Jan Žižka
The Puppets of Jiří Trnka
The Hurvinek Circus
Jan Hus
Two Little Frosts
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
Kutasek and Kutilka
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
A Drop Too Much
Old Czech Legends
The Emperor and the Golem
The Gingerbread House
Prince Bayaya
TV credits · 2
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