Movies: Karel Hutěčka

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth....

Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical duel, w...

Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life....

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques....

People living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good....

Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he becomes burdened with life's hardships. But then he meets a pretty water nymph, Mary....

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A fairy tale about the foolish dream of one dissatisfied snowman....

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Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’...

A romantic story between two wool skeins....

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The puppet monkey saves the baby from the pernicious influence of cigarettes....

A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter....

A stop-motion animated fairy tale about good and evil using wooden folk toys....

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Documentary film about the use of new methods in the construction of the shell roof of the tannery hall in Gottwaldov....

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