Jiří Trnka

Directing Feb 24, 1912 Dec 30, 1969 (aged 57) Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko

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.

6 Acting Credits

50 Crew Credits

Jiří Trnka

Acting

Skutečnost Noci svatojánské

Jiří Trnka

To jsou Bratři v triku

Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master

Loutky Jiřího Trnky

The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka

Crew

The Hand

Lemonade Joe

The Emperor and the Golem

Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

Springman and the SS

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Song of the Prairie

The Emperor's Nightingale

Cybernetic Grandma

Story of the Bass Cello

The Good Soldier Svejk

Old Czech Legends