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.
Cast
Crew
Song of the Prairie
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay
The Emperor's Nightingale
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay, Editor
Passion
Art Designer, Director, Story, Screenplay
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Director, Art Designer, Screenplay
Zlý jelen
Art Direction
The Golden Fish
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay
The Gingerbread House
Art Designer
The Merry Circus
Story, Screenplay, Director, Graphic Designer
Old Czech Legends
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay, Story
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Art Designer
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay
Two Little Frosts
Director, Art Designer, Story, Screenplay
Kutasek and Kutilka
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay
A Drop Too Much
Art Designer
Jan Hus
Art Designer, Costume Design
Cybernetic Grandma
Director, Screenplay, Art Direction
Lemonade Joe
Art Designer
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
Director, Screenplay, Art Designer
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
Director, Screenplay, Art Designer
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
Director, Screenplay, Art Designer
Story of the Bass Cello
Director, Screenplay, Story, Art Direction
The Devil's Mill
Director, Art Designer, Story, Screenplay
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Direction
The Hurvinek Circus
Director, Screenplay, Art Designer
Spejbl on the Trail
Art Designer
The Hand
Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Direction
Springman and the SS
Director, Screenplay, Art Designer, Supervising Art Director
Grandpa Planted a Beet
Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Direction
The Animals and the Brigands
Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Designer, Supervising Art Director
Prince Bayaya
Director, Screenplay, Art Direction
The Good Soldier Schweik
Director, Writer
Why UNESCO?
Art Designer, Director, Screenplay, Story
The Czech Year
Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Direction, Editor
Bomb Mania
Art Designer
The Emperor and the Golem
Costume Design
The Midnight Adventure
Art Designer
About the Thick Fog
Book
How to Catch a Tiger
Book
Joy of Love
Art Direction
The Gift
Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Designer, Supervising Art Director
Velryba - Abyrlev
Writer
Liška a džbán
Screenplay, Art Designer, Supervising Art Director
Paraplíčko
Art Designer
Against All
Costume Design
Jan Žižka
Costume Design
Capek's Tales
Art Designer
Míša Kulička
Art Designer
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Producer, Director, Writer