The Czech Year (1947)
Overview
The first full-length puppet film made by Jiri Trnka. Like the painter Ales who illustrated the national songs, Trnka depicts the traditional customs and tales of the Czech village in six separate sequences: Shrovetide, Spring, Legend About St. Prokop, The Fair, The Feast and Bethlehem." A Treasury of Fairy-tales" made Trnka famous all over the world and it is a masterpiece of Czech and world animation.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | cs |
| Popularity | 0.362 |
Directed By
Jiří Trnka
Crew
Vladimír Janovský
Václav Trojan
Jiří Trnka
Jiří Trnka
Břetislav Pojar
Jiří Trnka
František Braun
Václav Trojan
Jaroslav Zdrůbecký
Jiří Trnka
Emanuel Franek
Václav Renč
Vladimír Novotný
Arnošt Továrek
Josef Zavadil
Jaroslav Jílovec
Bohuslav Šrámek
Jan Karpaš
Otakar Pařík
Karel Sobotka
Zdeněk Hrabě
Stanislav Látal
Helena Lebdušková
Jan Kühn
Jiří Trnka
František Horník
V. Braun
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