Břetislav Pojar
Known for: Directing
Born: October 7, 1923
Died: October 12, 2012
Place of birth: Susice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Břetislav Pojar (7 October 1923 – 12 October 2012) was a Czech puppeteer, animator, and director of short and feature films. Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Pojar served as a puppeteer under his mentor Trnka. Pojar compiled an extensive body of work as a director and animator in Czechoslovakia, where he made films in both puppet animation to the more common stop motion animation. In the mid-1960s, Pojar emigrated to Canada, where he began a long collaboration with the National Film Board. His Canadian work is some of his best known and has won awards at prestigious international film festivals. His film To See or Not to See (Psychocratie) won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year in 1970. Pojar's work is characterized by strong social commentary, such as in Balablok, where armies of small circle- and square-shaped beings war with each other until they are all wounded into indistinguishable shapes. Often, Pojar's shorts contain little or no spoken dialogue. In the mid-2000s, Pojar moved back to the Czech film business in order to co-direct the collaborative animated feature film Fimfárum 2 (based on the stories of Jan Werich), which was released in 2006. Pojar died in Prague at the age of 89 in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Břetislav Pojar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
78 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Narco Blues
2016
NR
Pojar dětem
2016
NR
The Christmas Ballad
2016
NR
Tom Thumb’s Journey
2015
5.4
Car Fairy Tales
2011NR
Anatomie gagu
2008
NR
Mr. and Mr.
2006
7.5
Fimfarum 2
2006
6.0
Winter Days
2003
NR
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
2000
6.2
Dancing on the Moon
199710.0
Children First!
1996NR
GENUS
1995
7.0
Pourquoi?
1995
8.3
Overdose
1994
8.0
Mouseology
1994
6.8
The Flying Sneaker
1991
7.1
The Bear
1988
7.4
Jája and Pája
1987NR
From step to progress
1987
6.4
Nightangel
1986
7.3
'E'
19818.0
If...
1981
8.3
BOOOM
1979NR
Dášeňka
1979NR
How to Catch a Tiger
1977NR
About the Thick Fog
19768.0
Nazdar kedlubny
19746.5
The Apple Tree Maiden
1974
NR
Garden
1974
6.4
Balablok
1973
10.0
O pardálu který voněl
1972
8.0
A neříkej mi Vašíku
1972
8.0
Psí kusy
19717.0
Co to bouchlo?
1971
6.7
To See or Not to See
19699.0
Darwin Antidarwin
1969
8.0
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
19686.0
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
1968
10.0
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
1967
9.0
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
1967
6.3
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
1967
7.0
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
1966
9.0
Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
1966
NR
Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát
1966
7.1
Lemonade Joe
19648.0
Ideál
19649.0
A Few Words of Introduction
19639.0
Billiard
19629.0
Romance
196210.0
Painting is for the Cats
19616.5
On a Cat's Word
1961
9.0
School for Cats
19617.0
The Midnight Adventure
1960
6.5
The Lion and the Song
1959
7.2
A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959NR
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
19598.0
Bomb Mania
1959
8.0
Paraplíčko
19579.0
Spejbl on the Trail
1956NR
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
1956
8.0
Glory
1956
7.5
Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
1955
6.6
Two Little Frosts
1955NR
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
19559.0
Kubula a Kuba Kubikula
1955NR
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
1954
6.4
A Drop Too Much
1954
6.5
Old Czech Legends
1953NR
Josef Mánes II.
19527.0
Veselý kolotoč
1952
7.0
The Gingerbread House
1951
6.5
Prince Bayaya
19519.0
Josef Mánes
1951
5.6
The Emperor's Nightingale
1949
5.8
Story of the Bass Cello
1949
5.8
Song of the Prairie
1949
6.3
The Devil's Mill
1949
6.1
The Czech Year
1947NR
Vodník ve mlýně
1947NR
Míša Kulička
19478.0
Jak si zarídit byt
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Velryba - Abyrlev
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