Director

Jiří Trnka

Directing

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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 1All crew credits: 31

TMDB ID: 587535

IMDb ID: nm0873240

Known for: Directing

Born: February 24, 1912

Died: December 30, 1969

Age: 57

Place of birth: Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1946 - 2000

Years active: 55

Average TMDB rating: 7

Wikidata: Q362319

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Jiří Trnka

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Director (13)Art Designer (10)Costume Design (3)Art Direction (2)Book (1)Producer (1)Story (1)

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Biography

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 awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.