Old Czech Legends

Old Czech Legends
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Written by Screenplay:
Jiří Brdecka
Jiří Trnka
Book:
Alois Jirásek
Music by Václav Trojan
Cinematography Emanuel Franek
Ludvík Hájek
Release dates
  • 8 April 1953 (1953-04-08)
Running time
91 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech

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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