Břetislav Pojar
Biography
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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Movies (45)
Narco Blues
Director (Directing)
2016
Pojar dětem
Director (Directing)
2016
The Christmas Ballad
Story (Writing)
2016
Tom Thumb’s Journey
Director (Directing)
2015
Car Fairy Tales
Director (Directing)
2011
Anatomie gagu
2008
Mr. and Mr.
Director (Directing)
2006
Fimfarum 2
Director (Directing)
2006
Winter Days
Director (Directing)
2003
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Director (Directing)
2000
Dancing on the Moon
Animation Director (Visual Effects)
1997
Children First!
Director (Directing)
1996
Pourquoi?
Director (Directing)
1995
Overdose
Script (Crew)
1994
Mouseology
Director (Directing)
1994
The Flying Sneaker
Director (Directing)
1991
The Bear
Animation (Visual Effects)
1988
From step to progress
Director (Directing)
1987
Nightangel
Director (Directing)
1986
'E'
Director (Directing)
1981
If...
Director (Directing)
1981
B.O.O.O.M.
Director (Directing)
1979
How to Catch a Tiger
Screenplay (Writing)
1977
About the Thick Fog
Screenplay (Writing)
1976
Nazdar kedlubny
Director (Directing)
1974
The Apple Tree Maiden
Director (Directing)
1974
Balablok
Director (Directing)
1973
O pardálu který voněl
Director (Directing)
1972
A neříkej mi Vašíku
Director (Directing)
1972
Psí kusy
Screenplay (Writing)
1971
Co to bouchlo?
Screenplay (Writing)
1971
To See or Not to See
Writer (Writing)
1969
Darwin Antidarwin
Director (Directing)
1969
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
Director (Directing)
1968
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
Director (Directing)
1968
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
Screenplay (Writing)
1967
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
Screenplay (Writing)
1967
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
Director (Directing)
1967
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
Director (Directing)
1966
Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
Director (Directing)
1966
Lemonade Joe
Art Designer (Art)
1964
Ideál
Director (Directing)
1964
A Few Words of Introduction
Director (Directing)
1963
Billiard
Director (Directing)
1962
Romance
Director (Directing)
1962
