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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 awa…
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- The Gingerbread House (1951) Art Designer
- Why UNESCO? (1959) Art Designer
- The Gift (1947) Director
- Paraplíčko (1957) Art Designer
- Lemonade Joe (1964) Art Designer
- Joy of Love (1966) Art Direction
- Passion (1961) Art Designer
- The Emperor and the Golem (1951) Costume Design
- The Hand (1965) Director
- The Good Soldier Schweik (1986) Director
- The Hurvinek Circus (1955) Director
- Garden (1974) Book
- Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955) Art Designer
- A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959) Director
- Zlý jelen (1962) Art Direction
- Míša Kulička (1947) Art Designer
- Cybernetic Grandma (1963) Director
- Two Little Frosts (1955) Director
- Song of the Prairie (1949) Art Designer
- Old Czech Legends (1953) Art Designer
- The Midnight Adventure (1960) Art Designer
- Jan Žižka (1956) Costume Design
- Story of the Bass Cello (1949) Director
- Against All (1957) Costume Design
- Jan Hus (1955) Art Designer
- How the Old Man Traded It All Away (1954) Art Designer
- A Drop Too Much (1954) Art Direction
- Capek's Tales (1947) Art Designer
- The Merry Circus (1951) Story
- Springman and the SS (1946) Director
- About the Thick Fog (1976) Book
- The Devil's Mill (1949) Director
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase (1956) Director
- How to Catch a Tiger (1977) Book
- Spejbl on the Trail (1956) Art Designer
- The Animals and the Brigands (1947) Director
- The Emperor's Nightingale (1949) Art Designer
- Prince Bayaya (1951) Director
- The Czech Year (1947) Director
- Jiří Trnka (1967) as Himself
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Most-watched Jiří Trnka films currently: The Gingerbread House (1951), Why UNESCO? (1959), The Gift (1947), Paraplíčko (1957), Lemonade Joe (1964).
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Selected TV credits: The Good Soldier Schweik (1986), Garden (1974).
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