Ivo Špalj Movies

Jan Svankmajer, at 85 years of age, is one of the most prominent artists of European cinema. His work has inspired and guided generations of...

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle. After a visit from a puckish forest...

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a...

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

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...

Humorous as well as educational stories about magical and everyday problems, about devils, miracles, ordinary human vices and wisdom. The graphic...

The puppet film Mashkin Killed Koshkin, based on the short story of the same name by Daniil Kharms, is a small, absurd story of two heroes who...

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

As a man waits to fall to his death, overzealous morticians stand in the way of help.

Tomáš Etzler worked for seven years as a foreign correspondent in China. He came to know a country that was developing at an admirably...

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...

A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.

This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.

On summer vacation a young teenager finds himself hanging out alone on the streets of his neighbourhood, all his friends having gone to the country...

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

A cartoon in the form of a comic describes the process of development of human thought.