The Merry Circus

5.1
  • Genre: Animation
  • Run time: 12 min
  • Premiere: 1951. January 1.

Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.

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Art

Zdeněk Seydl

Graphic Designer

Kamil Lhoták

Graphic Designer

Jiří Trnka

Graphic Designer

František Tichý

Graphic Designer

Camera

Emanuel Franek

Director of Photography

Directing

Jiří Trnka

Director

Editing

Sound

Jan Rychlík

Original Music Composer

Otakar Pařík

Conductor

Václav Trojan

Original Music Composer

Writing

Jiří Trnka

Screenplay

Art

Zdeněk Seydl

Graphic Designer

Kamil Lhoták

Graphic Designer

Jiří Trnka

Graphic Designer

František Tichý

Graphic Designer

Camera

Emanuel Franek

Director of Photography

Directing

Jiří Trnka

Director

Editing

Sound

Jan Rychlík

Original Music Composer

Otakar Pařík

Conductor

Václav Trojan

Original Music Composer

Writing

Jiří Trnka

Screenplay