
Břetislav Pojar
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.
59 directing credits · 3 acting credits
Directing · 59

Winter Days
2003

Garden
1974
Dášeňka
1979

Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
1966

Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát
1966
Painting is for the Cats
1961

The Flying Sneaker
1991

The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
2000
Children First!
1996

The Lion and the Song
1959

Narco Blues
2016

Car Fairy Tales
2011

Balablok
1973

Fimfarum 2
2006
Bomb Mania
1959
Billiard
1962

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
1968
The Midnight Adventure
1960
From step to progress
1987
How to Catch a Tiger
1977

BOOOM
1979

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
1967

To See or Not to See
1969

Nightangel
1986

'E'
1981
Josef Mánes II.
1952
On a Cat's Word
1961

School for Cats
1961
A Few Words of Introduction
1963
Darwin Antidarwin
1969
O pardálu který voněl
1972

Mr. and Mr.
2006
Nazdar kedlubny
1974

Pourquoi?
1995

Mouseology
1994
Josef Mánes
1951

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
1967

Glory
1956
Psí kusy
1971

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
1967
About the Thick Fog
1976
A neříkej mi Vašíku
1972

Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
1955

Pojar dětem
2016

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
1966

The Gingerbread House
1951
Spejbl on the Trail
1956
Jak si zarídit byt
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If...
1981
The Apple Tree Maiden
1974
Romance
1962

Paraplíčko
1957

Tom Thumb’s Journey
2015
Co to bouchlo?
1971
A Drop Too Much
1954
Velryba - Abyrlev
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Ideál
1964
Veselý kolotoč
1952
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
1968