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- The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.
- Young English gentleman falls in love with beautiful Czech vampire.
- The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jirí Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
- This film was made as a kind of a "protest-song" against the panic fear of getting old and also against flirtation. The main character (played by Leos Sucharípa) is an elderly man, admittedly competent, but not very responsible. In the continuous fear, he is trying to do as much as he can but, instead of confidence, he only finds out that in the real life one cannot just take but must give as well. Last but not least, one must be able to resign to his age.
- A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.
- A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots - crabs, based on the principle "the strongest survive", that would live on metal and would be an ideal diversionary weapon - finds his plans turned against him but it is too late to change it.
- Edited full-length picture about the most famous Czech third-year pupils. It is composed from the original seven episodes of the series that became very popular among both children and adults. The seven episodes are joined by short sequences and ended with a brand new story called "The Repeaters".
- A full-length picture based on the famous novel by Daniel Defoe. The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe's life before and after his stay on the island. Following the principle of setting the novel right, it describes Crusoe's experiences with delicate irony and understanding.
- A film version of a novel by Jaroslav Havlícek, one of the leading representatives of Czech psychological prose. The film is a romantic story set in a small South-Bohemian town at the end of the last century, where an impressionable adolescent boy Enil (Jakub Marek)falls in love for the first time - and then into depths of despair.
- Trnka's sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again. Trnka's artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
- The second cartoon by Jirí Trnka that was a sensation at the festival in Cannes in 1946 when it defeated the world animation elite of the time. It is a musical fairy-tale based on a famous folk story about animals that deterred thieves. The picture finished the monopoly of Disney's style in animation and it started an impetuous development of European animation. The picture is one of the best in the world of animation.
- A joyful puppet film based on a story from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It is a story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel. A story full of medieval humor which takes place in a bizarre atmosphere of medieval Venice. The puppets used in the picture are some of the most beautiful by Jirí Trnka.
- This film story is based on a famous song by Jaroslav Jezek sung by Jan Werich. It is about a water sprite who through a water pipe gets to modern times. He finds out that in a new world full of prohibitions, regulations, simply bureaucracy such an extraordinary creature as a water sprite cannot live.
- A classical cartoon that contributed to the special character of Czech animation. It is a humorous story in the style of art nouveau about love that overcomes all obstacles and recognizes no limits. The film is based on Kamil Lhotak's pictures and the content is adjusted to their specific milieu.
- A poor fisherman catches the golden fish that promises him to fulfill three wishes if he sets her free again. He does so and the fish fulfills two of his three wishes. However, she refuses to fulfill the third one, the last one in which the fisherman's wife wants to be equal to God. Jirí Trnka made this picture according to Jan Werich's version of the tale with Werich himself as the narrator.
- A satiric film that through a lecture of a cracked brain pedant describes the increasing disobedience of children. It calls us for protection against misbehaved children and wants to "defend" the world of adults from disastrous consequences of the ungrateful children's deeds. The film is remarkable for the inimitable humor of Milos Macourek.
- A morality play about human fantasy losing its creativity if it becomes a means of making money. In this film it is the ability of a boy to create colored "nonsense" that becomes a trade for his parents. The colored clouds of the little boy produced on the basis of orders eventually change to gray cubes.
- Film based on the story by the French writer Gerard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers. The magician Conin enchants evil that afterwards destroys him and a shy love-lorn young man named Eustach.
- The story takes place in the second half of the eighties. The regime of power is tired, but any changes are out of sight. Some people are trying to find their asylum in their privacy, some defect. Who is not willing to get adapted, lives at the outskirts of the society. So, for example, the forty-year old intellectual Ewald (György Cserhalmi)can not perform his profession, as he could not comply with requirements of the political regime. He earns his living just to sustain, and at the moment he is assigned to measure the capacity of water bore in the vicinity of the fortress. He lives in a caravan-trailer, measures the yield of the water source, and makes friends with the head officer of the fortress (Miroslav Donutil). Their friendship is a strange, unusual relation of two men of different characters, linked by a feeling of loneliness, need of sincerity and even a mutual respect, which stems from understanding each other.
- The film captures the excited political atmosphere in March 1968 Czechoslovakia when president Antonin Novotny stepped down and Ludvik Svoboda was elected a new president. The then top political figures are filmed during their day to day meetings, often during their personal conversations. Thus a mosaic of shots portraying the spirit of those times is created.
- A tragicomic paraphrase of Darwin's theory of evolution. The rain worm evolves into man - Homo Sapiens - and is able to destroy both himself and his fellows in a very perfect way. Later he turns back into a rain worm which happily disappears into its safe hole in the ground.
- A classical story about a bad stepmother, good girl Maruska, the cat king named Miaow and about the evil that's punished and the good that's rewarded. The picture is particular for its gentle humor easily understandable by the children audience.
- Adaptation of a social tale by Jirí Wolker - a classical piece of Czech animated cinematography. A millionaire who owns a whole town, its factories and workers, falls ill. The surgeons tell him that sunshine is the only cure for him. The millionaire orders the sun to be taken down from the sky and put in a metal enclosure to shine only for himself.
- The cheerful film story is the debut of the author of the famous stories about Dorothy, Bozena Mozísová. It is based on a modern fairy-tale by Milos Macourek about two children who found a topper, took it to school and created a lot of fantastic and complicated situations with it.
- One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with an important ethical issue of matrimony when one of the partners leaves the other after many years of living together. The concept of the picture is humorous exaggeration, it is full of observations and also a wise view on the problem of gratitude and ungratefulness.