Jiří Trnka
- Directing
- February 24, 1912 · Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
- December 30, 1969
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, Producer
- Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master
- The Good Soldier Schweik · Director
- How to Catch a Tiger · Novel
- Whale, Elahw · Writer
- Of Mice in Tinfoil · Story
- About the Thick Fog · Novel
- Garden · Novel
- Jiří Trnka · Self
- Joy of Love · Art Direction
- The Hand · Director, Story
- Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose · Director, Screenplay
- Lemonade Joe · Art Designer
- Cybernetic Grandma · Director, Screenplay
- Zlý jelen · Art Direction
- Passion · Art Designer, Director
- The Midnight Adventure · Art Designer
- A Midsummer's Night Dream · Director, Art Designer
- Skutečnost Noci svatojánské · Self
- Why UNESCO? · Art Designer, Screenplay
- Bomb Mania · Art Designer
- Against All · Costume Design
- Paraplíčko · Art Designer
- To jsou Bratři v triku · Self
- Spejbl on the Trail · Art Designer
- The Good Soldier Svejk · Director, Writer
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase · Screenplay, Art Designer
- Jan Žižka · Costume Design
- The Puppets of Jiří Trnka
- The Hurvinek Circus · Director, Screenplay
- Jan Hus · Art Designer, Costume Design
- Two Little Frosts · Director, Art Designer
- Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... · Art Designer
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku · Screenplay, Art Designer
- How the Old Man Traded It All Away · Art Designer, Director
- Kutasek and Kutilka · Art Designer, Director
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče · Art Designer, Screenplay
- A Drop Too Much · Art Direction
- Old Czech Legends · Art Designer, Director
- The Emperor and the Golem · Costume Design
- The Gingerbread House · Art Designer
- Prince Bayaya · Director, Screenplay
- The Golden Fish · Art Designer, Director
- The Merry Circus · Story, Screenplay
- The Emperor's Nightingale · Art Designer, Director
- Song of the Prairie · Art Designer, Director
- Story of the Bass Cello · Director, Art Direction
- The Devil's Mill · Director, Art Designer
- The Czech Year · Director, Story
- Capek's Tales · Art Designer
- The Animals and the Brigands · Director, Screenplay
- The Gift · Director, Screenplay
- Liška a džbán · Screenplay, Art Designer
- Míša Kulička · Art Designer
- Springman and the SS · Director, Screenplay
- Grandpa Planted a Beet · Director, Art Direction