Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 07, 1923
Died
Oct 12, 2012
Place of Birth
Susice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Credits
84 titles
Břetislav Pojar
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Narco Blues
Director
Pojar dětem
Director
The Christmas Ballad
Story
Tom Thumb’s Journey
Director
Car Fairy Tales
Director
Anatomie gagu
Mr. and Mr.
Director
Fimfarum 2
Director
Winter Days
Director
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Director
Dancing on the Moon
Animation Director
Children First!
Director
GENUS
Self
Pourquoi?
Director
Overdose
Script
Mouseology
Director
The Flying Sneaker
Director
The Bear
Animation
Jája and Pája
Screenplay
From step to progress
Director
Nightangel
Director
'E'
Director
If...
Director
BOOOM
Director
Dášeňka
Director
How to Catch a Tiger
Screenplay
Whale, Elahw
Director
Of Mice in Tinfoil
Director
About the Thick Fog
Screenplay
Nazdar kedlubny
Director
Garden
Director
The Apple Tree Maiden
Director
Balablok
Director
O pardálu který voněl
Director
A neříkej mi Vašíku
Director
Psí kusy
Director
Co to bouchlo?
Director
To See or Not to See
Writer
Darwin Antidarwin
Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
Director
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
Director
Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát
Director
Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
Director
Lemonade Joe
Art Designer
Ideál
Director
A Few Words of Introduction
Director