Stanislav Látal (7 May 1919, in Samotišky, near

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on th ...

– 4 August 1994, in

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) was a Czech puppet-film maker and animator. He was among the Czech animators

Jiří Trnka Jiří Trnka (; 24 February 1912 – 30 December 1969) was a Czechs, Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is ...

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 ...

Hermína Týrlová Hermína Týrlová (11 December 1900 in Příbram, Březové Hory – 3 May 1993 in Zlín) was a prominent Czech people, Czech animator, screen writer, and film director. She was often called ''the mother of Czech animation''. Over the course of he ...

Jiří Barta Jiří Barta (born 26 November 1948) is a Czech stop-motion animation director. Many of his films use wood as a medium for animation. Among his notable films are the 1986 film ''The Pied Piper''. In 2007 he released his first computer-animated s ...

Břetislav Pojar Břetislav Pojar (7 October 192312 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'' ...

, and

Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer (; born 4 September 1934) is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his stop-motion animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Terr ...

known for their unique style.Dina Iordanova ''Cinema of the other Europe: the industry and artistry of East'' 2003 Page 31 "Best known for their unique style were Czech animators Jiří Trnka, Karel Zeman, Hermína Týrlová, Jiří Barta, Břetislav Pojar, Stanislav Látal and surrealist Jan Svankmajer, as well as the Slovak animator Viktor Kubal."

Films

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Wedding in the Coral Sea ''Wedding in the Coral Sea'' ( cs, Svatba v korálovém moři; german: Hochzeit im Korallenmeer) is a 1944 Czech animated short film. It was written, animated and directed by a group of Czech cartoonists including Jiří Brdečka, Břetislav Pojar ...

'' (''Svatba v korálovém moři''), November 3, 1944 * ''The Fox and the Pitcher'' (''Liška a džbán''), September 9, 1947 * ''Dog worries'' (''Psí starosti'') 1954 * ''Kuťásek and Kutilka on a journey'' (''Kuťásek a Kutilka na pouti'') April 12, 1956 * ''The paver Houska's imp'' (''Plivník dlaždiče Housky'' 1961 * ''How to raise a good child'' (''Jak si opatřit hodné dítě'') 1965 * ''Otýlie a 1580 kaněk'' ("Little Otylia and the 1,580 ink blots") 1965 * ''Nebuďte mamuty'' ("Don't wake the mammoths") 1967 * ''Too much tenderness'' (''Příliš mnoho něhy'') 1968 * ''Sunday'' (''Neděle'') 1969 * ''Rübezahl and the shoemaker'' (''Krakonoš a švec'') July 9, 1976 * '' Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York'' (Czech ''Dobrodružství Robinsona Crusoe, námořníka z Yorku'') April 1, 1982 * ''The water goblin Čepeček'' (''Vodník Čepeček'') December 11–17, 1985 (TV series) * ''The Good Soldier Schweik'' (''Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka'') 1986

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* 1919 births 1994 deaths Czech puppeteers Czech animators Czech animated film directors Czech film directors People from Olomouc District Czechoslovak film directors {{animator-stub