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Born October 7, 1923 · 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 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.

Narco Blues
2016

Pojar dětem
2016

Tom Thumb’s Journey
2015

Car Fairy Tales
2011

Mr. and Mr.
2006

Fimfarum 2
2006

Winter Days
2003

The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
2000
Children First!
1996

Pourquoi?
1995

Mouseology
1994

The Flying Sneaker
1991
From step to progress
1987

Nightangel
1986

'E'
1981
If...
1981

BOOOM
1979
How to Catch a Tiger
1977
About the Thick Fog
1976
Nazdar kedlubny
1974
The Apple Tree Maiden
1974

Balablok
1973
O pardálu který voněl
1972
A neříkej mi Vašíku
1972
Psí kusy
1971
Co to bouchlo?
1971

To See or Not to See
1969
Darwin Antidarwin
1969

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
1968
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
1968

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
1967

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
1967

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
1967

Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
1966

Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
1966
Ideál
1964
A Few Words of Introduction
1963
Billiard
1962
Romance
1962
Painting is for the Cats
1961
On a Cat's Word
1961

School for Cats
1961
The Midnight Adventure
1960

The Lion and the Song
1959
Bomb Mania
1959

Paraplíčko
1957
Spejbl on the Trail
1956

Glory
1956

Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
1955
A Drop Too Much
1954
Josef Mánes II.
1952
Veselý kolotoč
1952

The Gingerbread House
1951
Josef Mánes
1951
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