Ivo Špalj Movies

A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who, unmistakably and without any hesitation, catches one lazy fellow after another. However, she is helpless...

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island....

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

A king and his three daughters must contend with the hairy wiles of the "ugly bastard" known as Omnifurous.

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of...