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

Golem (S)

1987 · Movie · 6 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Barta

5.2

68 votes

5.2

68 votes

Riddles for a Candy (S)

1978 · Movie · 8 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Barta

5.0

52 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