Helena Lebdušková

01 de jan. de 1983

01 de set. de 1985

A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.

15 de jun. de 1967

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," a...

01 de jan. de 1971

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

01 de set. de 1966

A short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".

28 de jul. de 1983

01 de jan. de 1982

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under...

01 de jun. de 1982

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, Bi...

11 de set. de 1953

A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, eac...

01 de jan. de 1969

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 re...

15 de abr. de 1949

"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. T...

01 de jan. de 1977

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

22 de abr. de 1955

"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 Kontrabaso...

01 de jan. de 1949

A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge. In the end, he sells hi...

01 de jan. de 1977

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling...

01 de jan. de 1981

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle. After a visit from a puckish forest wi...

01 de jan. de 1980

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 puppe...

31 de dez. de 1954

The third episode of the series "Hey, Mister, let's play", in which the heroes are two bears, one foxy and the other naive. In this episode the big...

10 de mar. de 1967

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

01 de jan. de 1949

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island. Following ...

01 de out. de 1982

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...

01 de jan. de 1951

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

01 de jan. de 1972

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...

26 de jan. de 1951

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as ...

12 de set. de 1947

A funny parody on comedies and horror films. A scientist tries to kidnap the beautiful wife of a dandy.

01 de jan. de 1970

A little boy who is unable to count goes off to the crazy planet where arithmetic doesn’t exist. After many adventures, he goes back to school to l...

01 de jan. de 1964

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...

02 de set. de 1955

The second cartoon by Jiri Trnka that was a sensation at the festival in Cannes in 1946 when it defeated the world animation elite of the time. It ...

12 de set. de 1947

24 de mar. de 1967

A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who, unmistakably and without any hesitation, catches one lazy fellow after another. However, she is helpless...

01 de jan. de 1984

While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.

01 de jan. de 1984

25 de mar. de 1954

Folk art–like hand-drawn stills illustrate this sweetly simple pastoral fable, in which a peasant comes into possession of a small fortune—but real...

31 de dez. de 1954

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1949

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.

01 de jan. de 1983

The first full-length puppet film made by Jiri Trnka. Like the painter Ales who illustrated the national songs, Trnka depicts the traditional custo...

13 de dez. de 1947

A humorous modern fairy tale for adults about the life of devils. This is the story of a young couple in love: two devils named Artur and Blanka. H...

01 de jan. de 1986

01 de jan. de 1961

One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town astro...

21 de abr. de 1977

05 de mai. de 1967

Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves. But when his master decides it’s time to ...

01 de jan. de 1969

A fairy-tale about a brave, self-sacrificial and faithful girl named Maryska who sets free an enchanted princess and her twelve maids from a myster...

01 de jan. de 1979

The second part of the six-part series “Hey, Mister, Let’s Play”. The bears try go to the water, and the big bear is good and makes himself a car f...

27 de mai. de 1966

31 de ago. de 1951

Pilot of the series "Hey, Mister, Let's Play". The story of two bears, the older one is experienced and sly, the younger is naive and gullible. Thi...

13 de mai. de 1966

13 de set. de 1968

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical ...

01 de jan. de 1951

Bad moods, denial and constant resentment are spreading like an epidemic, gradually transferring from the individual to the entire society.

01 de jan. de 1962

11 de jul. de 1954

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

01 de jan. de 1978

A look at the series of sacrifices of a man who wants to save up for his object of desire: an automobile.

06 de mai. de 1964

A cada episódio eles criam as mais complicadas situações para tentar resolver um problema. Seguem à risca o lema "para que simplificar se é possíve...