Jiří Trnka
Directing
1912-02-24 · Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
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.
Filmography
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
2000 · Movie
Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master
1999 · Movie
The Good Soldier Schweik
1986 · Series
How to Catch a Tiger
1977 · Movie
Whale, Elahw
1977 · Movie
Of Mice in Tinfoil
1977 · Movie
About the Thick Fog
1976 · Movie
Garden
1974 · Series
Jiří Trnka
1967 · Movie
Joy of Love
1966 · Movie
The Hand
1965 · Movie
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
1965 · Movie
Lemonade Joe
1964 · Movie
Cybernetic Grandma
1963 · Movie
Zlý jelen
1962 · Movie
Passion
1961 · Movie
The Midnight Adventure
1960 · Movie
A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959 · Movie
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
1959 · Movie
Why UNESCO?
1959 · Movie
Bomb Mania
1959 · Movie
Against All
1957 · Movie
Paraplíčko
1957 · Movie
To jsou Bratři v triku
1957 · Movie
Spejbl on the Trail
1956 · Movie
The Good Soldier Svejk
1956 · Movie
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
1956 · Movie
Jan Žižka
1956 · Movie
The Puppets of Jiří Trnka
1956 · Movie
The Hurvinek Circus
1955 · Movie
Jan Hus
1955 · Movie
Two Little Frosts
1955 · Movie
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
1955 · Movie
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
1955 · Movie
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
1954 · Movie
Kutasek and Kutilka
1954 · Movie
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
1954 · Movie
A Drop Too Much
1954 · Movie
Old Czech Legends
1953 · Movie
The Emperor and the Golem
1951 · Movie
The Gingerbread House
1951 · Movie
Prince Bayaya
1951 · Movie
The Merry Circus
1951 · Movie
The Golden Fish
1951 · Movie
The Emperor's Nightingale
1949 · Movie
Song of the Prairie
1949 · Movie
Story of the Bass Cello
1949 · Movie
The Devil's Mill
1949 · Movie
The Czech Year
1947 · Movie
Capek's Tales
1947 · Movie
The Gift
1947 · Movie
Míša Kulička
1947 · Movie
The Animals and the Brigands
1947 · Movie
Liška a džbán
1947 · Movie
Springman and the SS
1946 · Movie
Grandpa Planted a Beet
1946 · Movie