Břetislav Pojar
Directing
Born 1923-10-07
Died 2012-10-12
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.
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Filmography
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Directing
39 credits
The Gingerbread House
On a Cat's Word
'E'
Nazdar kedlubny
Narco Blues
Paraplíčko
Psí kusy
School for Cats
Garden
Children First!
Dášeňka
Josef Mánes
Veselý kolotoč
Billiard
Mouseology
The Midnight Adventure
Balablok
Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát
Ideál
Winter Days
Romance
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
A Drop Too Much
Co to bouchlo?
The Flying Sneaker
Car Fairy Tales
O pardálu který voněl
Pourquoi?
The Lion and the Song
Pojar dětem
A neříkej mi Vašíku
Glory
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
BOOOM
Tom Thumb’s Journey
Velryba - Abyrlev
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
Writing
31 credits
The Gingerbread House
On a Cat's Word
Jája and Pája
Nazdar kedlubny
Narco Blues
Paraplíčko
Psí kusy
School for Cats
The Christmas Ballad
Garden
Dášeňka
Josef Mánes
Veselý kolotoč
Billiard
The Midnight Adventure
Ideál
Romance
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Princesses Are Not to Be Sniffed At
A Drop Too Much
Co to bouchlo?
The Flying Sneaker
Car Fairy Tales
O pardálu který voněl
The Lion and the Song
A neříkej mi Vašíku
Glory
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! Hold On to Your Hat
Velryba - Abyrlev
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How They Went to Sleep
Dobrodružství na Zlaté zátoce
Hey, Mister, Let’s Play! How the Bears Went Swimming
Acting
22 credits
The Bear
GENUS
Paraplíčko
Míša Kulička
Song of the Prairie
Lemonade Joe
Mouseology
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Overdose
Story of the Bass Cello
Two Little Frosts
The Devil's Mill
Romance
Old Czech Legends
Prince Bayaya
Dancing on the Moon
Kubula a Kuba Kubikula
The Emperor's Nightingale
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase
Vodník ve mlýně
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Z Hatvanu na hranice Haliče
The Czech Year
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