Malá čarodějnice

The first gingerbread animation: A parody of Czech fairytale clichés about three princes who have to go for a miraculous elixir to cure their sick father.

Adaption of the Antonin Dvorak opera Čert a Káča (The Devil and Kate), Op. 112, B.201, based on a farce by Josef Kajetán Tyl.

A king and his three daughters must contend with the hairy wiles of the "ugly bastard" known as Omnifurous.

La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechia and directed by Eduard Hofman. It is adapted from a series of five books by Jean Effel, a French caricaturist and illustrator. The visual style is adapted from his drawings. The film is a comedy about the creation of the universe in six days, with the devil messing around and contributing in his own way.

A fairy tale about a good-hearted witch, and her friend the raven.

While all the inhabitants of a small rural village are working hard to survive the harsh daily routine, the mayor and his wife are gorging themselves to death. Without generosity, they even refuse alms to a penniless old lady. Among the hard workers trying to subsist, a little girl works courageously to help her exhausted mother. One day, during her lunch break, she goes into the forest to fill her cup of water in a river. There, a poor old lady asks for alms from the young lady, having nothing but her little piece of bread, willingly offers it to her. It is then that the old lady, as a reward, enchants the cup of the little girl ...

In the second half of the eighties, this film was shown in cinemas as a full-length series of well-known fairy tales with popular characters: Puppy, Mike the cat, Křemílek and Vochomůrka, Dorotka, Kreček and Brundibári.