Břetislav Pojar
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 7, 1923
- Died
- October 12, 2012 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Susice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
Břetislav Pojar (7 October 1923 – 12 October 2012) was a Czech puppeteer, animator, and director of short and feature films. Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Pojar served as a puppeteer under his mentor Trnka. Pojar compiled an extensive body of work as a director and animator in Czechoslovakia, where he made films in both puppet animation to the more common stop motion animation. In the mid-1960s, Pojar emigrated to Canada, where he began a long collaboration with the National Film Board. His Canadian work is some of his best known and has won awards at prestigious international film festivals. His film To See or Not to See (Psychocratie) won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year in 1970. Pojar's work is characterized by strong social commentary, such as in Balablok, where armies of small circle- and square-shaped beings war with each other until they are all wounded into indistinguishable shapes. Often, Pojar's shorts contain little or no spoken dialogue. In the mid-2000s, Pojar moved back to the Czech film business in order to co-direct the collaborative animated feature film Fimfárum 2 (based on the stories of Jan Werich), which was released in 2006. Pojar died in Prague at the age of 89 in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Břetislav Pojar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jak si zarídit byt
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Narco Blues
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Pojar dětem
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Tom Thumb’s Journey
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Car Fairy Tales
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Fimfarum 2
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Mr. and Mr.
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Winter Days
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The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
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Children First!
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Pourquoi?
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Mouseology
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The Flying Sneaker
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From step to progress
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Nightangel
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If...
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'E'
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BOOOM
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Dášeňka
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How to Catch a Tiger
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Whale, Elahw
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Of Mice in Tinfoil
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About the Thick Fog
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The Apple Tree Maiden
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Nazdar kedlubny
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Garden
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Balablok
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O pardálu který voněl
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A neříkej mi Vašíku
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Co to bouchlo?
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Psí kusy
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Darwin Antidarwin
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To See or Not to See
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Fanfaron, the Little Clown
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Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
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Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
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Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
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Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
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Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
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Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
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Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát
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Ideál
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A Few Words of Introduction
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Billiard
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Romance
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On a Cat's Word
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School for Cats
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Painting is for the Cats
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The Midnight Adventure
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The Lion and the Song
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Bomb Mania
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Paraplíčko
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Spejbl on the Trail
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Glory
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Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
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A Drop Too Much
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Josef Mánes II.
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Veselý kolotoč
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Josef Mánes
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The Gingerbread House
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