Movies: Loutkovy Film Praha

  • 1953
    Old Czech Legends

    Old Czech Legends (1953)

    Old Czech Legends

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    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....

    Old Czech Legends
  • 1951
    The Golden Fish

    The Golden Fish (1951)

    The Golden Fish

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    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 ...

    The Golden Fish
  • 1956
    The Good Soldier Schweik

    The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)

    The Good Soldier Schweik

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    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...

    The Good Soldier Schweik
  • 1949
    The Emperor's Nightingale

    The Emperor's Nightingale (1949)

    The Emperor's Nightingale

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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....

    The Emperor's Nightingale
  • 1949
    Song of the Prairie

    Song of the Prairie (1949)

    Song of the Prairie

    5.51949HD

    An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved....

    Song of the Prairie
  • 1949
    Story of the Bass Cello

    Story of the Bass Cello (1949)

    Story of the Bass Cello

    5.51949HD

    "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...

    Story of the Bass Cello
  • 1957
    Paraplíčko

    Paraplíčko (1957)

    Paraplíčko

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    Paraplíčko
  • 1956
    Spejbl on the Trail

    Spejbl on the Trail (1956)

    Spejbl on the Trail

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    Spejbl on the Trail
  • 1947
    Míša Kulička

    Míša Kulička (1947)

    Míša Kulička

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    Míša Kulička
  • 1951
    Prince Bayaya

    Prince Bayaya (1951)

    Prince Bayaya

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    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 ...

    Prince Bayaya
  • 1949
    The Devil's Mill

    The Devil's Mill (1949)

    The Devil's Mill

    5.81949HD

    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....

    The Devil's Mill
  • 1955
    Two Little Frosts

    Two Little Frosts (1955)

    Two Little Frosts

    6.51955HD

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

    Two Little Frosts
  • 1955
    The Hurvinek Circus

    The Hurvinek Circus (1955)

    The Hurvinek Circus

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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)...

    The Hurvinek Circus
  • 1955
    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku

    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku (1955)

    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku

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    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
  • 1954
    A Drop Too Much

    A Drop Too Much (1954)

    A Drop Too Much

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    A Drop Too Much
  • 1948
    O milionáři, který ukradl slunce

    O milionáři, který ukradl slunce (1948)

    O milionáři, který ukradl slunce

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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 ...

    O milionáři, který ukradl slunce
  • 1947
    The Czech Year

    The Czech Year (1947)

    The Czech Year

    6.11947HD

    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...

    The Czech Year
  • 1951
    The Merry Circus

    The Merry Circus (1951)

    The Merry Circus

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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....

    The Merry Circus
  • 1954
    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče

    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče (1954)

    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče

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    Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
  • 1956
    Liška a vlk

    Liška a vlk (1956)

    Liška a vlk

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    Liška a vlk