Jiří Trnka Movies

An old woodblock train meets its shiny new electric replacement one Christmas Eve in this glowingly nostalgic stop-motion toy story, directed by...

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics...

Short documentary on "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", Czech puppet animation director Jirí Trnka.

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical...

Folk art–like hand-drawn stills illustrate this sweetly simple pastoral fable, in which a peasant comes into possession of a small...

The cartoon film sets out to justify the existence of UNESCO as an instrument for world peace.

Children play in a park.