HOME Program Magic Animated: The Classic Czech Animation Collection - Short 1
Springman & the SS
Jiri TRNKA / Jiri BRDECKA | Czechoslovakia | 1946 | 13 Min | Short / Animation
There was a legend during the German occupation of Prague. The legend had it that a man jumping on springs terrified the German intruders.
Cybernetic Grandmother
Jiri TRNKA | Czechoslovakia | 1962 | 29 Min | Short / Animation
Trnka"s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmo..
The Report about the Civilisation
Josef HEKRDLA / Vladimir JIRANEK | Czechoslovakia | 1981 | 8 Min | Short / Animation
A film by Vladimir Jiranek comments on a modern technological world that repress the individuality of a human.
Club of the Laid Off
Jiri BARTA | Czechoslovakia | 1989 | 24 Min | Short / Animation
Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation.