Břetislav Pojar
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing59
movieNarco Blues
2016
Director
moviePojar dětem
2016
Director
movieTom Thumb’s Journey
2015
Director
movieCar Fairy Tales
2011
Director
movieMr. and Mr.
2006
Director
movieFimfarum 2
2006
Director
movieWinter Days
2003
Director
moviePourquoi?
1995
Director
movieMouseology
1994
Director
movieThe Flying Sneaker
1991
Director
movieNightangel
1986
Director
movie'E'
1981
Director
If...
1981
Director
movieBOOOM
1979
Director
Dášeňka
1979
Director
tvGarden
1974
Director
movieBalablok
1973
Director
movieO pardálu který voněl
1972
Director
movieA neříkej mi Vašíku
1972
Director
moviePsí kusy
1971
Director
movieTo See or Not to See
1969
Director
Ideál
1964
Director
Billiard
1962
Director
Romance
1962
Director
movieSchool for Cats
1961
Director
movieThe Lion and the Song
1959
Director
Bomb Mania
1959
Director
movieParaplíčko
1957
Director
movieGlory
1956
Director
movieA Drop Too Much
1954
Director
movieThe Gingerbread House
1951
Director
Josef Mánes
1951
Director
Writing41
movieNarco Blues
2016
Story, Screenplay
movieCar Fairy Tales
2011
Screenplay
movieMr. and Mr.
2006
Writer
movieThe Flying Sneaker
1991
Screenplay
tvJája and Pája
1987
Screenplay
From step to progress
1987
Story, Screenplay
Nazdar kedlubny
1974
Screenplay
tvGarden
1974
Screenplay
movieO pardálu který voněl
1972
Screenplay
movieA neříkej mi Vašíku
1972
Screenplay
moviePsí kusy
1971
Screenplay
Co to bouchlo?
1971
Screenplay
Ideál
1964
Story, Screenplay
Romance
1962
Screenplay
On a Cat's Word
1961
Screenplay
movieSchool for Cats
1961
Screenplay
movieThe Lion and the Song
1959
Screenplay, Story
Bomb Mania
1959
Story, Screenplay
movieParaplíčko
1957
Story, Screenplay
Spejbl on the Trail
1956
Story, Screenplay
movieGlory
1956
Writer
movieDobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
1955
Screenplay
movieA Drop Too Much
1954
Screenplay
Josef Mánes II.
1952
Screenplay, Story
Veselý kolotoč
1952
Screenplay
movieThe Gingerbread House
1951
Story, Screenplay
Josef Mánes
1951
Screenplay
Visual Effects21
movieDancing on the Moon
1997
Animation Director
movieMouseology
1994
Animation
movieThe Bear
1988
Animation
Romance
1962
Animation
movieA Midsummer's Night Dream
1959
Animation
movieParaplíčko
1957
Animation
movieTwo Little Frosts
1955
Animation
movieOld Czech Legends
1953
Animation
moviePrince Bayaya
1951
Animation
movieThe Emperor's Nightingale
1949
Animation
movieStory of the Bass Cello
1949
Animation
movieSong of the Prairie
1949
Animation
movieThe Devil's Mill
1949
Animation
movieThe Czech Year
1947
Animation
Míša Kulička
1947
Animation
Acting3
Art3
movieThe Flying Sneaker
1991
Art Direction
movieLemonade Joe
1964
Art Designer
Ideál
1964
Art Direction
Creator1
Dášeňka
1979
Creator
Crew1
movieOverdose
1994
Script
Editing1
movieCar Fairy Tales
2011
Editor