''The Tale of John and Mary'' ( cz, Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Mařence) is a 1980 Czechoslovak animated film directed by

Karel Zeman Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. Because of his creative use of special effec ...

. This is the last film by Zeman, based on Czech fairy tales. The film is created using cutout animation. The images of John and Mary were featured at the 200 Czech Crown silver coin minted in memory of Zeman.

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* 1980 films Czechoslovak fantasy films 1980s Czech-language films Films directed by Karel Zeman 1980s fantasy adventure films Czech fantasy adventure films Films with screenplays by Karel Zeman 1980s Czech films Czech animated adventure films Czech animated fantasy films {{1980s-CzechRepublic-film-stub