Retrospectiva TRNKA / 23-25 februarie / Cinema Union

PROGRAM:

23.2.2007 opening
18h00 / Midsummer night’s dream
20h00 / Old Czech Legends

24.2.2007
16h00 / Short Films Selection
18h00 / Old Czech Legends
20h00 / Bajaja

25.2.2007
16h00 / Bajaja
18h00 / Short Film Selection
20h00 / A Midsummer Night’s dream

 

Jiří TRNKA (24 februarie 1912 – 30 decembrie 1969)
Papusar ceh, ilustrator, animator, scenarist si regizor, Jiri Tranka este renumit in toata lumea pentru animatiile sale cu papusi.
Studiaza la Scoala de Arte si Meserii din Praga, si apoi isi deschide un teatru de papusi in 1936. Din cauza razboiului, trupa sa se imprastie, iar el continua sa faca ilustratii pentru carti de copii. Dupa razboi, Tranka infiinteaza un departament de animatie la Studioul de film din Praga. La scurt timp ajunge recunoscut international, ca cel mai mare animator cu papusi folosind metoda ceheasca traditionala. Participa la multe festivaluri, castiga multe premii (printre care si la Cannes, in 1946, la doar un an de cand incepuse sa faca filme) si este supranumit „Walt Disney-ul estului“. 

LUNG METRAJE

SEN NOCI SVATOJÁNSKÉ / VISUL UNEI NOPTI DE VARA
regia: Jiří Trnka, 1959 (73 min.)
film color
versiune in engleza
Primul cinemascop de lung metraj cu papusi din lume, bazat pe o piesa de William Shakespeare.

STARÉ POVĚSTI ČESKÉ / VECHI POVESTIRI CEHE
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1952 (80 min.)
film color
versiune in franceza
Film cu papusi ce readuce la viata eroii miturilor antice cehesti. Filmul are 7 parti (Stramosul Ceh, Bivoy, Printesa Libuse, Premysl  plugarul, Razboiul domnitelor, Horymir si Razboiul cu Lucarns)

BAJAJA/ BAYAYA
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1950 (81min.)
film color
versiune in ceha cu “intertitles”
Film cu papusi. Povestire fantastica bazata pe scrierea lui Bozena Nemcova despre un copil de taran care salveaza trei printese din ghearele unui dragon, si apoi se casatoreste cu cea mai tanara dintre fete.
SCURT METRAJE

ZASADIL DEDEK ŘEPU / BUNICUL A PLANTAT O SFECLA
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1945 (9 min.)
film color
fara naratiune
Primul desen animat ceh ce prezinta povestea bunicului, a bunicii, a nepotelei, a cainelui si a pisicii care incearca sa scoata sfecla din pamant.
 
VÁŠEN / PASIUNE
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1961 (8 min.)
film color
fara naratiune
Pasiunea pentru viteza poate fi, in zilele noastre, recunoscuta chiar si in atitudinea unui nou-nascut. Acest film cu papusi arata cum aceasta pasiune, daca nu este controlata, poate fi devastatoare.

ARCHANDÉL GABRIEL A PANI HUSA / ARHANGHELUL GABRIEL SI DOAMNA GASCA
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1964 (29min.)
film color
fara naratiune
Un foarte vesel film cu papusi bazat pe povestirea lui Boccaccio din Decameron, despre o frumoasa doamna care se preda doar arhanghelului Gabriel

RUKA / MANA
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1965 (17 min.)
film color
fara naratiune
Film cu papusi. O alegorie despre putere si oprimare. O poveste fantastica despre un olar caruia i se cere sa faca un model dupa el-insusi. Oare acest lucru ii va omori spiritul?

PERAK A SS / ALERGATORUL SI BARBATII SS
regie si design: Jiří Trnka, 1946 (13 min.)
fara naratiune + un “intertitle: in limba ceha
film alb-negru
Desen animat ce prezinta povestea legendara a unui cosar care a devenit teroarea trupelor SS ce ocupasera Praga, in timpul celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial.

ENGLISH VERSION

Jiří TRNKA (24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969)
The most famous Czech puppet animator, illustrator and innovative film director of animations.
After the graduation from Prague School of Arts and Crafts in 1936 Jiří Trnka created a puppet theater. This group was dissolved when World War II began, and he instead designed stage sets and illustrated books for children. After the war, Trnka established the first animation unit at the Prague film studio and soon became internationally recognized as the world’s greatest puppet animator in the traditional Czech method. He won an award at the Cannes Festival in 1946, just one year after he began working in film. From 1948, the communist Czech government began to subsidize his work, although this did not seem to affect the message or style of his work. Trnka also created animated cartoons and was called by some critics  “the Walt Disney of the East”

FILMS:

SEN NOCI SVATOJÁNSKÉ / A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Directed by Jiří Trnka, 1959 (73 mn.)
English version, color. 
The first full-length puppet cinemascope in the world, based on the play by William Shakespeare.

STARÉ POVĚSTI ČESKÉ / OLD CZECH LEGENDS
Directed and designed by Jiří Trnka, 1952 (80 mn.)
French version, color.
Composed of seven parts (Czech, the Forefather, Bivoy, Princess Libuse, Premysl the Ploughman, Maidens’ War, Horymir and War with the Lucans), this puppet animation revives the heroes of ancient Czech myths.

BAJAJA / BAYAYA
Directed and designed by Jiří Trnka, 1950 (81mn.)
Czech version and intertitles, colour.
Fairy-tale based on the charming story by Bozena Nemcova about a village boy, who saves three princesses from a dragon’s claws and then get married the youngest of them. Puppet animation.
SHORT FILMS:

ZASADIL DEDEK ŘEPU / GRANDPA PLANTED A BEET
Directed and designed by Jiří Trnka, 1945 (9 mn.)
Without narration, colour.
The first Czech cartoon based on a fairy-tale about grandpa, grandma, their granddaughter, dog and cat who all wanted to pull a big beet out from the ground, based on national fairy tale.

VÁŠEN / PASSION
Directed and designed by Jiří Trnka, 1961 (8 mn.)
Without narration, colour.
The passion for high speed can nowadays almost be seen in the new-born. The film shows that such passion, if not controlled, is self-destructing and even suicidal. Puppet animation.

ARCHANDÉL GABRIEL A PANI HUSA / ARCHANGEL GABRIEL AND MISTRESS GOOSE
Directed by Jiří Trnka, 1964 (29mn.)
Without narration, colour.
A joyful puppet film based on a story from Boccaccio’s Decameron about a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel.
 
RUKA / THE HAND
Directed and designed by Jiří Trnka, 1965 (17 mn.)
Without narration, colour.
An allegory about power and opression. The harlequin-potter lives quietly until the day when a hand demands of him to make a model of itself…

PERAK A SS / THE SPRINGER AND SS-MEN
Directed by Jiří Trnka, 1946 (13 mn.)
Without narration, black & white.
Cartoon. A comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the SS troops occupying Prague during World War II.

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