Jindřich Vodička

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

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden. The teacher thinks he has discovered a new species and christens it with his own name.

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics of the French song "Plaisir d'amour."

A boy has a velvetbean caterpillar as a pet. He teaches it to dance and it becomes a world sensation.

Two linear characters typical of Émile Cohl are situated in the same frame, in different coloured rectangles making up their respective settings. One is good, the other is bad and lives off the first.

Surreal short animation about a clever girl with an amazing memory. Things go well for her until she can't remember facts about polar bears for a school project.

The sun is shining bright today! The Puppy would like to drink some water to cool off, but his bowl is empty! He goes to question the farm animals to find out where he can quench their thirst.

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

The puppy wakes up at night due to strange unpleasant noises. The sounds don't stop, but eventually the puppy manages to fall asleep. In the morning he goes to see what it was and on the way to the pond he meets a hen sitting on eggs...

One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with the topic of implacability of human optimism and fantasy. In a sad manner it tells us a humorous story of a man living double life: one of a beaten little clerk, humiliated by his arrogant boss, imperious wife and misbehaved descendant; the other of a spoiled hero of a dream empire full of beautiful and tender women, flowers and fantastic figures. From artistic point of view is the film based on Adolf Born's lithographs.

A humorous criminal story about a dog that knew how to read, appreciated classical music and spoke a foreign language. His primitive master hates his dog's superiority and tries to liquidate it physically.

An episode of the children's series about a little Mole. This story tells how the little Mole became a great experimenter in the field of chemistry for a while.

Parents from around the world hold a congress to discuss how to deal with their misbehaving children. All parents come together — only one set is missing, the parents of Sylvester, the best boy in the world. The congress decides to go see him so he can lead the other children by example. Sylvester is truly an exceptional child, but his "being good at all times and under all circumstances" somewhat gets out of hand.

Everyone knows Ferda the Ant, who knows how to work with everyone and selflessly helps all small animals from the beetle empire. Everything with him is fun, but he can also punish stupidity and injustice.

Mozart's life was turbulent, even in Prague in 1787, when he was pressed for time to compose the overture to »Don Giovanni«.