Jirí Trnka

Jirí Trnka was born on Feb 24, 1912 in Czech Republic]. Jirí Trnka's big-screen debut came with The Emperor's Nightingale directed by Jirí Trnka in 1949. Jirí Trnka is known for A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Jirí Trnka, Joss Ackland stars as Quince and Ann Bell as Hermia. Jirí Trnka has got 4 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Jirí Trnka achieved is Cannes Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Jirí Trnka plays is A Midsummer Night's Dream which will be released on Sep 25, 1959.

A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka specialized in puppet animation, a traditional Czech art form, of which he became the undisputed master. He also created animated cartoons, but it was his puppet animation that made him an internationally recognized artist and the winner of film festival awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.