Jiří Trnka
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Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director.
Grave of Jiří Trnka at the Central Cemetery in Plzeň
The Czech Year
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The Czech Year, also called A Treasury of Fairy-Tales, is a 1947 stop-motion-animated puppet feature film from Czechoslovakia. It was the first feature film directed by Jiří Trnka, and it proceeded to
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…puppet animation films, and began to experiment with the help of Břetislav Pojar. The result was his first feature puppet film in a cycle Špalíček (The Czech Year, 1947), based on a book illustrated by Mikoláš Aleš. The cycle consists of six short films, which put on stage the legends and customs of his country…
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