Jiří Trnka Movies

A barrel organ grinder meets the devil on a mysterious moonlit night in this haunted-house fable, which showcases Trnka’s atmospheric use of...

Anti-war animation about man's passions for self-destruction by experimenting with dangerous chemicals.

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

Short documentary on "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", Czech puppet animation director Jirí Trnka.

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics...

Adapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka...

How do you wake up a sleeping puppet? Made by Trnka in collaboration with actor and puppeteer Josef Pehr, this winsome mix of live action and puppet...

The Czech stop-motion puppet animation master Jiri Trnka directed some of the most acclaimed animated films ever made. In 1966, four years before his...

Children play in a park.