Antonín Horák

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.

Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.

Two little figures are born from the wool clippings, who compete for the wool doll's favor and try to impress her with their bizarre antics.

A fairy tale about the love of a mermaid and a young fisherman, which had to overcome many adversities before reaching its fulfillment.

A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter.

A stop-motion animated fairy tale about good and evil using wooden folk toys.

A poetic and colorful tale at the bottom of the sea.

Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’

A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.

An episode from a series of fairy tales tells the story of correcting the behavior of a mischievous and devilish boy. When the boy gets glued to a bucket, he finally understands how he's harmed the animals in the yard and woods.

Another of Hermína Týrlová's "wool fairy tales" tells about two children who decorated a Christmas tree.

Tanya, a 10-year-old Russian tourist traveling with her parents from Prague to Brno, is left behind in a foreign country. Tanya leaves her compartment when the train stops because of a cow. Disobeying her parent's instructions, she gets off the train to investigate, lingers too long, and is left behind. Cold, lonely, and clad only in her pajamas in the unfamiliar countryside, the girl is relieved to meet up with two rather nervous Czech boys camping out together for the first time. At first the would-be "cowboys" are frightened by her ghost-like appearance. After hearing her story, the boys find Tanya a dress to wear and accompany the girl on foot to her final destination, Brno.

In WWII Czechoslovakia, an old toymaker incorporates secret messages in his models to fool the Germans. They find him out and he flees. As the Gestapo officer hunts around he is attacked by the toys, who send him packing. Live action and stop motion short by Hermína Týrlová.

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.

An updated version of the classic fairy tale - an anti-war warning.

Inspired by a Persian fairytale, and told in the ornate style of illustrated Persian manuscripts; set on a remote island, its inhabitants discover a legendary treasure that brings both joy and grief.

Set in a bleak, filth-ridden provincial hospital, a disillusioned doctor begins to find the philosophical ramblings of a mental patient more stimulating than the company of "sane" society. As their relationship deepens amidst the grimy and decaying wards, the doctor's own mental health is called into question by his suspicious colleagues.

An adventure with living figurines from a Christmas tree. A restless little devil bothers the other ornaments hanging on the Christmas tree. When he wakes up a child and makes it cry, he's finally punished.