Břetislav Pojar

Directing·Oct 7, 1923·Susice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

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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.

Film	Credit
Narco Blues2016 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Pojar dětem2016 · Director	Director
Tom Thumb’s Journey2015 · Director	Director
Car Fairy Tales2011 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
AAnatomie gagu2008 · Actor	Actor
Mr. and Mr.2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Fimfarum 22006 · Director	Director
Winter Days2003 · Director	Director
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka2000 · Director	Director
CChildren First!1996 · Director	Director
Pourquoi?1995 · Director	Director
Mouseology1994 · Director	Director
The Flying Sneaker1991 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
FFrom step to progress1987 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Nightangel1986 · Director	Director
'E'1981 · Director	Director
IIf...1981 · Director	Director
BOOOM1979 · Director	Director
HHow to Catch a Tiger1977 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
AAbout the Thick Fog1976 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
NNazdar kedlubny1974 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
TThe Apple Tree Maiden1974 · Director	Director
Balablok1973 · Director	Director
O pardálu který voněl1972 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
A neříkej mi Vašíku1972 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Psí kusy1971 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
CCo to bouchlo?1971 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
To See or Not to See1969 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
DDarwin Antidarwin1969 · Director	Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep1968 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
FFanfaron, the Little Clown1968 · Director	Director
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat1967 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Ate Witty Porridge1967 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At1967 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming1966 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin1966 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
IIdeál1964 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
AA Few Words of Introduction1963 · Director	Director
BBilliard1962 · Director	Director
RRomance1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
PPainting is for the Cats1961 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
OOn a Cat's Word1961 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
School for Cats1961 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
TThe Midnight Adventure1960 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Lion and the Song1959 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
SSkutečnost Noci svatojánské1959 · Self	Self
BBomb Mania1959 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Paraplíčko1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay