Jiří Trnka
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1912, Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
- Died
- December 30, 1969
- Movies
- 36
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2000 | The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master | |
| 1967 | Jiří Trnka | Himself |
| 1959 | Skutečnost Noci svatojánské | Self |
| 1957 | To jsou Bratři v triku | Himself |
| 1956 | The Puppets of Jiří Trnka |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2000 | The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 1977 | Whale, Elahw | Writer |
| 1965 | The Hand | Director, Screenplay |
| 1965 | Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose | Director, Screenplay |
| 1963 | Cybernetic Grandma | Director, Screenplay |
| 1961 | Passion | Director, Screenplay |
| 1959 | A Midsummer's Night Dream | Director, Screenplay |
| 1959 | Why UNESCO? | Screenplay, Director |
| 1956 | The Good Soldier Svejk | Director, Writer |
| 1956 | Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase | Screenplay, Director |
| 1955 | The Hurvinek Circus | Director, Screenplay |
| 1955 | Two Little Frosts | Director, Screenplay |
| 1955 | Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku | Screenplay, Director |
| 1954 | How the Old Man Traded It All Away | Director, Screenplay |
| 1954 | Kutasek and Kutilka | Director, Screenplay |
| 1954 | Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče | Screenplay, Director |
| 1953 | Old Czech Legends | Director, Screenplay |
| 1951 | Prince Bayaya | Director, Screenplay |
| 1951 | The Merry Circus | Screenplay, Director |
| 1951 | The Golden Fish | Director, Screenplay |
| 1949 | The Emperor's Nightingale | Director, Screenplay |
| 1949 | Story of the Bass Cello | Director, Screenplay |
| 1949 | The Devil's Mill | Director, Screenplay |
| 1949 | Song of the Prairie | Director, Screenplay |
| 1947 | The Czech Year | Director, Screenplay |
| 1947 | The Animals and the Brigands | Director, Screenplay |
| 1947 | The Gift | Director, Screenplay |
| 1947 | Liška a džbán | Screenplay |
| 1946 | Springman and the SS | Director, Screenplay |
| 1946 | Grandpa Planted a Beet | Director, Screenplay |
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