Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)(1973)
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Jiří Trnka Studio, Réne Laloux, Slovakia, Technicolor, 1973
Producer(s): Simon Damiani Anatole Dauman Andre Valio-Cavaglione Vaclav Strnad
Release Date: 11/05/1973 (Cannes); 06/12/1973 (France); 21/12/1973 (Czechslovakia)
"Fantastic Planet (1973), based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en série (1957), takes place in a distant future where the giant blue-skin aliens, the Draags, enslave and oppress humans. Terr, the protagonist, is a human boy raised as a pet of a Draag girl..."
Snehulak (The Snowman)
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Color, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hermína Týrlová, Puppetoons, Slovakia, Snehulak/The Snowman, Stop Motion, 1966
Producer(s): K. Hutěčka, J. Čapoun, A. Horáková
Release Date: 1966
"The Snowman is a Czech experimental short animation about a snowman who is created by a child and soon realizes that the winter weather will someday end and he will be at risk of melting. Looking to find a colder home, the snowman embarks on a journe..."