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Břetislav Pojar
Susice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
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 car…
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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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2016
Narco Blues
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2016
Pojar dětem
Movie Director
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2016
The Christmas Ballad
Movie Story
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2015
Tom Thumb’s Journey
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2011
Car Fairy Tales
Movie Director
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2008
Anatomie gagu
Movie
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2006
Mr. and Mr.
Movie Director
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2006
Fimfarum 2
Movie Director
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2003
Winter Days
Movie Director
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2000
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
Movie Director
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1997
Dancing on the Moon
Movie Animation Director
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1996
Children First!
Movie Director
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1995
GENUS
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1995
Pourquoi?
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1994
Overdose
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1994
Mouseology
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1991
The Flying Sneaker
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1988
The Bear
Movie Animation
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1987
Jája and Pája
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1987
From step to progress
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1986
Nightangel
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1981
'E'
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1981
If...
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1979
BOOOM
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1979
Dášeňka
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1977
How to Catch a Tiger
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1976
About the Thick Fog
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1974
Nazdar kedlubny
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1974
Garden
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1974
The Apple Tree Maiden
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1973
Balablok
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1972
O pardálu který voněl
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1972
A neříkej mi Vašíku
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1971
Psí kusy
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1971
Co to bouchlo?
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1969
To See or Not to See
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1969
Darwin Antidarwin
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1968
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
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1968
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
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1967
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
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