Adapting Jaroslav Hasek’s raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada’s Read More »
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The Emperor’s Nightingale AKA Cisaruv slavík (1949) Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec, Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »
A Midsummer Night’s Dream AKA Sen noci svatojánské (1959) Jirí Trnka, Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Read More »