Screenplay: Jirí Barta
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jirí Barta. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Vanished World of Gloves (S)
1983 · Movie · 17 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel...
6.6
73 votes
6.6
73 votes
The Last Theft (S)
1988 · Movie · 21 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jirí Barta
Cast Frantisek Husák · Zdenek Martínek · Ivan Vojtek
Plot The Last Theft (1987), is a jewel thief/vampire flick shot in the style of 1970s European exploitation cinema. PLOT: A dark and windy night. A thief crawls over a cemetery...
6.5
69 votes
6.5
69 votes
In the Attic or Who Has a Birthday Today?
2009 · Movie · 74 min. · Czech Republic
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.
6.4
126 votes
6.4
126 votes
The Design (S)
1981 · Movie · 6 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot A paper cutting film which is a pointed piece of criticism of the uniformity and inhuman style of some architectonic projects.
6.2
91 votes
6.2
91 votes
The Club of the Laid Off
1989 · Movie · 25 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger...
6.2
57 votes
6.2
57 votes
Animated Self-Portraits (S)
1989 · Movie · 8 min. · Canada
Direction David Ehrlich · Jirí Barta · Sally Cruikshank · Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo
Plot An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
5.7
206 votes
5.7
206 votes
Disc-jockey (S)
1980 · Movie · 9 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world of circles...
5.7
63 votes
5.7
63 votes
A Ballad About Green Wood (S)
1983 · Movie · 10 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot Cycles of life, with fantasy elements. An ax splits wood. Bits of split wood move in stop-motion; one piece has a woman's face near the top. Water streams in torrents;...
5.5
71 votes
5.5
71 votes
5.0
52 votes
Cook, mug, cook! (S)
2006 · Movie · 10 min. · Czech Republic
Direction Jirí Barta
Plot Animated film The Cook, mug, cook! works with the motifs of a famous Czech fairytale The Sweet Porridge. The story takes place in an old winding tin toy piggy bank...
4.1
38 votes
4.1
38 votes