Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 24, 1912
Died
Dec 30, 1969
Place of Birth
Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
Credits
56 titles
Jiří Trnka
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Self (archive footage)
Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master
The Good Soldier Schweik
Director
How to Catch a Tiger
Book
Whale, Elahw
Writer
Of Mice in Tinfoil
Original Story
About the Thick Fog
Book
Garden
Book
Jiří Trnka
Himself
Joy of Love
Art Direction
The Hand
Director
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Director
Lemonade Joe
Art Designer
Cybernetic Grandma
Director
Zlý jelen
Art Direction
Passion
Art Designer
The Midnight Adventure
Art Designer
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Director
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
Self
Why UNESCO?
Art Designer
Bomb Mania
Art Designer
Against All
Costume Design
Paraplíčko
Art Designer
To jsou Bratři v triku
Himself
Spejbl on the Trail
Art Designer
The Good Soldier Svejk
Director
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
Director
Jan Žižka
Costume Design
The Puppets of Jiří Trnka
The Hurvinek Circus
Director
Jan Hus
Art Designer
Two Little Frosts
Director
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Art Designer
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
Screenplay
How the Old Man Traded It All Away
Art Designer
Kutasek and Kutilka
Art Designer
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
Director
A Drop Too Much
Art Direction
Old Czech Legends
Art Designer
The Emperor and the Golem
Costume Design
The Gingerbread House
Art Designer
Prince Bayaya
Director
The Merry Circus
Story
The Golden Fish
Art Designer
The Emperor's Nightingale
Art Designer
Song of the Prairie
Art Designer
Story of the Bass Cello
Director
The Devil's Mill
Director
The Czech Year
Director
Capek's Tales
Art Designer