Břetislav Pojar
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.
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Movies (79)
Narco Blues
2016 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Pojar dětem
2016 · Director
The Christmas Ballad
2016 · Story
Tom Thumb’s Journey
2015 · Director
Car Fairy Tales
2011 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
Anatomie gagu
2008
Mr. and Mr.
2006 · Director, Writer
Fimfarum 2
2006 · Director, Screenplay
Winter Days
2003 · Director
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
2000 · Director
Dancing on the Moon
1997 · Animation Director
Children First!
1996 · Director
Pourquoi?
1995 · Director
Overdose
1994 · Script
Mouseology
1994 · Director, Animation
The Flying Sneaker
1991 · Director, Screenplay, Art Direction
The Bear
1988 · Animation
From step to progress
1987 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Nightangel
1986 · Director
'E'
1981 · Director
If...
1981 · Director
BOOOM
1979 · Director
How to Catch a Tiger
1977 · Screenplay, Director
Whale, Elahw
1977 · Director, Screenplay
Of Mice in Tinfoil
1977 · Director, Screenplay
About the Thick Fog
1976 · Screenplay, Director
Nazdar kedlubny
1974 · Director, Screenplay
The Apple Tree Maiden
1974 · Director
Balablok
1973 · Director
O pardálu který voněl
1972 · Screenplay, Director
A neříkej mi Vašíku
1972 · Director, Screenplay
Psí kusy
1971 · Director, Screenplay
Co to bouchlo?
1971 · Screenplay, Director
To See or Not to See
1969 · Director, Writer
Darwin Antidarwin
1969 · Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
1968 · Director, Screenplay
Fanfaron, the Little Clown
1968 · Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
1966 · Director, Screenplay
Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin
1966 · Director, Screenplay
Lemonade Joe
1964 · Art Designer
Ideál
1964 · Director, Story, Screenplay, Art Direction
A Few Words of Introduction
1963 · Director
Billiard
1962 · Director, Story
Romance
1962 · Director, Screenplay, Animation
Painting is for the Cats
1961 · Director, Screenplay
On a Cat's Word
1961 · Director, Screenplay
School for Cats
1961 · Director, Screenplay
The Midnight Adventure
1960 · Director, Screenplay
The Lion and the Song
1959 · Director, Screenplay, Story
A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959 · Animation
Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
1959 · Self
Bomb Mania
1959 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Paraplíčko
1957 · Director, Story, Screenplay, Animation
Spejbl on the Trail
1956 · Director, Story, Screenplay, Animation
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
1956 · Animation
Glory
1956 · Director, Writer
Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
1955 · Screenplay, Director
Two Little Frosts
1955 · Animation
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkovy nehody ve vlaku
1955 · Animation
Kubula a Kuba Kubikula
1955 · Animation
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
1954 · Animation
A Drop Too Much
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Old Czech Legends
1953 · Animation
Josef Mánes II.
1952 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Veselý kolotoč
1952 · Director, Screenplay
The Gingerbread House
1951 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Prince Bayaya
1951 · Animation
Josef Mánes
1951 · Screenplay, Director
The Emperor's Nightingale
1949 · Animation
Story of the Bass Cello
1949 · Animation
Song of the Prairie
1949 · Animation
The Devil's Mill
1949 · Animation
The Czech Year
1947 · Animation
Vodník ve mlýně
1947 · Animation
Míša Kulička
1947 · Animation
Jak si zarídit byt
· Director
