Jiří Trnka
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.
29 directing credits · 6 acting credits
Directing · 29
The Hand
1965
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
1965
The Good Soldier Svejk
1956
The Emperor's Nightingale
1949
Story of the Bass Cello
1956
Two Little Frosts
1955
Old Czech Legends
1953
A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959
The Czech Year
1947
Prince Bayaya
1951
The Good Soldier Schweik
1986
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
2000
The Animals and the Brigands
1947
The Golden Fish
1951
The Hurvinek Circus
1955
Cybernetic Grandma
1963
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
1954
Song of the Prairie
1949
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
1955
Grandpa Planted a Beet
1946
Springman and the SS
1946
The Merry Circus
1951
Why UNESCO?
1959
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
1956
The Gift
1947
Passion
1961
Kutasek and Kutilka
1954
The Devil's Mill
1949
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
1954
