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Music by Jan Rychlík Running time 14 minutes Initial release 1946 Music director Jan Rychlík Art director Jiří Trnka | 6.5/10 Letterboxd Release date 1946 Country Czechoslovakia Directors Jiří Trnka, Jiří Brdečka Story by Ota Safránek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Jiří Brdečka
Jiří Trnka Written by Jiří Brdečka
Eduard Hofman
Ota Safránek (story)
Jiří Trnka Screenplay Jiří Trnka, Jiří Brdečka, Eduard Hofman Similar The Cybernetic Grandma, Song of the Prairie (Árie préri, The Czech Year, Prince Bayaya, The Emperor's Nightingale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Springman and the ss
Springman and the SS (Czech: Pérák a SS) is a 1946 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jiří Brdečka and Jiří Trnka featuring Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague. The film is also known as The Chimney Sweep in the USA.
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Plot
A chimney sweep disguises as a Spring-heeled Jack-like figure during the Nazi occupation. The heroic and mischievous black-clad "Springer", with a mask fashioned out of a sock and defying the curfew, is capable of performing fantastic leaps due to having couch springs attached to his shoes. He taunts the occupying German army sentries and the Gestapo before escaping in a surrealistic, slapstick chase across the darkened city.
Soundtrack
Cultural impact
Trnka's postwar interpretation of Pérák as a quasi-superhero formed the basis for sporadic revivals of the character in Czech science fiction and comic book stories.
DVD releases
Pérák a SS is featured in a DVD anthology of World War II propaganda cartoons, Cartoons for Victory, which was released on May 2, 2006.