Jiří Trnka
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1912
- Died
- December 30, 1969 (aged 57)
- Birthplace
- Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
Biography
A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka specialized in puppet animation, a traditional Czech art form, of which he became the undisputed master. He also created animated cartoons, but it was his puppet animation that made him an internationally recognized artist and the winner of film festival awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.
Known For
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Filmography
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Movie · Director
The Good Soldier Schweik
TV · Director · 9 eps
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Movie · Director
The Hand
Movie · Director
Cybernetic Grandma
Movie · Director
Passion
Movie · Director
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Movie · Director
Why UNESCO?
Movie · Director
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
Movie · Director
The Good Soldier Svejk
Movie · Director
Two Little Frosts
Movie · Director
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
Movie · Director
The Hurvinek Circus
Movie · Director
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
Movie · Director
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
Movie · Director
Kutasek and Kutilka
Movie · Director
Old Czech Legends
Movie · Director
Prince Bayaya
Movie · Director
The Golden Fish
Movie · Director
The Merry Circus
Movie · Director
Story of the Bass Cello
Movie · Director
The Devil's Mill
Movie · Director
Song of the Prairie
Movie · Director
The Emperor's Nightingale
Movie · Director
The Animals and the Brigands
Movie · Director
The Czech Year
Movie · Director
The Gift
Movie · Director
Springman and the SS
Movie · Director
Grandpa Planted a Beet
Movie · Director