Ivo Špalj Movies

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.

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

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...

The film animation technique of pixilation was used in this short comedy. The notorious criminal Bloodthirsty Hugo has broken out of prison again. He...

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

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...

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

The full-length film which, though based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, is more about the complexity of the time and the world. We witness the...

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

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

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She...

One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town...