Jiří Trnka
Born: 1912-02-24 in Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko
Died: 1969-12-30
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2000
- The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka as Self (archive footage)
1986
- The Good Soldier Schweik ... (Director)
1977
- Whale, Elahw ... (Writer)
- Of Mice in Tinfoil ... (Original Story)
- How to Catch a Tiger ... (Book)
1976
- About the Thick Fog ... (Book)
1974
- Garden ... (Book)
1967
- Jiří Trnka as Himself
1966
- Joy of Love ... (Art Direction)
1965
- The Hand ... (Director)
- Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose ... (Director)
1964
- Lemonade Joe ... (Art Designer)
1963
- Cybernetic Grandma ... (Director)
1962
- Zlý jelen ... (Art Direction)
1961
- Passion ... (Art Designer)
1960
- The Midnight Adventure ... (Art Designer)
1959
- A Midsummer's Night Dream ... (Director)
- Why UNESCO? ... (Art Designer)
- Skutečnost Noci svatojánské as Self
- Bomb Mania ... (Art Designer)
1957
- Paraplíčko ... (Art Designer)
- To jsou Bratři v triku as Himself
- Against All ... (Costume Design)
1956
- The Good Soldier Svejk ... (Director)
- Jan Žižka ... (Costume Design)
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase ... (Director)
- The Puppets of Jiří Trnka
- Spejbl on the Trail ... (Art Designer)
1955
- Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... ... (Art Designer)
- The Hurvinek Circus ... (Director)
- Two Little Frosts ... (Director)
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku ... (Screenplay)
- Jan Hus ... (Art Designer)
1954
- A Drop Too Much ... (Art Direction)
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče ... (Director)
- Kutasek and Kutilka ... (Art Designer)
- How the Old Man Traded It All Away ... (Art Designer)
1953
- Old Czech Legends ... (Art Designer)
1951
- The Emperor and the Golem ... (Costume Design)
- The Gingerbread House ... (Art Designer)
- The Merry Circus ... (Story)
- The Golden Fish ... (Art Designer)
- Prince Bayaya ... (Director)
1949
- Song of the Prairie ... (Art Designer)
- Story of the Bass Cello ... (Director)
- The Emperor's Nightingale ... (Art Designer)
- The Devil's Mill ... (Director)
1947
- The Gift ... (Director)
- Míša Kulička ... (Art Designer)
- Liška a džbán ... (Screenplay)
- The Animals and the Brigands ... (Director)
- Capek's Tales ... (Art Designer)
- The Czech Year ... (Director)
1946
- Springman and the SS ... (Director)
- Grandpa Planted a Beet ... (Director)