Directing • AGE 57
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 ...


The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Self (archive footage)
2000

Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master
1999

The Good Soldier Schweik
Director
1986

Garden
Book
1974

Joy of Love
Art Direction
1966

The Hand
Director
1965

Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Director
1965

Lemonade Joe
Art Designer
1964

Cybernetic Grandma
Director
1963

A Midsummer's Night Dream
Director
1959

Why UNESCO?
Art Designer
1959

Against All
Costume Design
1957

Paraplíčko
Art Designer
1957

The Good Soldier Svejk
Director
1956

Jan Žižka
Costume Design
1956

The Hurvinek Circus
Director
1955

Jan Hus
Art Designer
1955

Two Little Frosts
Director
1955

Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Art Designer
1955

A Drop Too Much
Art Direction
1954

Old Czech Legends
Art Designer
1953

The Emperor and the Golem
Costume Design
1951

The Gingerbread House
Art Designer
1951

Prince Bayaya
Director
1951

The Emperor's Nightingale
Art Designer
1949

Song of the Prairie
Art Designer
1949

Story of the Bass Cello
Director
1949

The Devil's Mill
Director
1949

The Czech Year
Director
1947

Capek's Tales
Art Designer
1947

Springman and the SS
Director
1946