Old Czech Legends
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Director Jiri Trnka Music director Vaclav Trojan Duration Country Czechoslovakia | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Animation, History Screenplay Jiri Trnka, Jiri Brdecka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Jiri Brdecka , Jiri Trnka , Alois Jirasek Release date 8 April 1953 (1953-04-08) Initial release April 8, 1953 (Czechoslovakia) Cast Similar movies Related Jiri Trnka movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old Czech Legends (Czech: Staré pověsti české) is a 1953 Czechoslovak stop motion puppet animation film directed by Jiří Trnka. It was based on the 1894 book Ancient Bohemian Legends by Alois Jirásek.
After the completion of Bajaja in 1950, Trnka was praised by the communist regime of Czechoslovakia, and asked to make more films. He created a project to film Don Quijote, but it was rejected. Trnka decided to go back to illustrating children's books, but the government convinced him to make his next film based on a classical Czech book. Trnka initially didn't want to work on the project.
The 91 minute film has a complex story with many characters and features complicated scenes both to stage and animate. Trnka's use of camera movements, lighting, set design, character design and animation and general storytelling made this an influential movie in the history of animation.
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