Movies: Loutkovy Film Praha
- 1953
Old Czech Legends (1953)
Old Czech Legends6.41953HD
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....
- 1951
The Golden Fish (1951)
The Golden Fish5.71951HD
A poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfil three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfils two of his three wishes. However, she refuses to fulfil the third one, the last one in which the fisherman’s ...
- 1956
The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)
The Good Soldier Schweik7.21956HD
Adapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka one of his biggest creative challenges. Trnka himself felt that the final episode was the most artist...
- 1949
The Emperor's Nightingale (1949)
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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....
- 1949
Song of the Prairie (1949)
Song of the Prairie5.51949HD
An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved....
- 1949
Story of the Bass Cello (1949)
Story of the Bass Cello5.51949HD
"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...
- 1957
Paraplíčko (1957)
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- 1956
Spejbl on the Trail (1956)
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- 1947
Míša Kulička (1947)
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- 1951
Prince Bayaya (1951)
Prince Bayaya5.41951HD
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 ...
- 1949
The Devil's Mill (1949)
The Devil's Mill5.81949HD
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....
- 1955
Two Little Frosts (1955)
Two Little Frosts6.51955HD
Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale....
- 1955
The Hurvinek Circus (1955)
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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. (MUBI)...
- 1955
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku (1955)
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku01955HD
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- 1954
A Drop Too Much (1954)
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- 1948
O milionáři, který ukradl slunce (1948)
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The millionaire who stole the sun, adaptation of a social tale by Jiri Wolker. A millionaire who owns a whole town, its factories and workers, falls ill. The surgeons tell him that sunshine is the only cure for him. The millionaire orders the sun to ...
- 1947
The Czech Year (1947)
The Czech Year6.11947HD
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. Proko...
- 1951
The Merry Circus (1951)
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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....
- 1954
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče (1954)
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče01954HD
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- 1956
Liška a vlk (1956)
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