This program of late-career Trnka works includes The Good Soldier Švejk Part 3 (1954), Passion (1962), Cybernetic Grandma (1962), and Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose (1965), and The Hand (1965).
Appears in: The Puppet Master: The Films of Jiří Trnka
Films in this Program
The Good Soldier Švejk, Part Three
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Adapted from the scathingly funny, hugely influential anti-war classic by anarchist writer Jaroslav Hašek, this satirical farce charts the exploits …
Passion (aka Obsession)
Directed by Jiří Trnka
A boy’s need for speed causes problems throughout his life in this triumph of modernist design, which blends puppet, stop …
Cybernetic Grandma
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Trnka took a turn into Space Age sci-fi surrealism with this dark, dystopian satire on automatization in which a child …
Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Adapted from a story in Boccaccio’s Decameron, this irreverent, medieval-set lampoon of religious hypocrisy mixes Christian iconography with bawdy black …
The Hand
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Trnka’s last work is a powerful, deeply personal allegory about the plight of the artist toiling under the restrictions of …