Screenplay: Jan Švankmajer

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot A three-part depiction of various forms of communication. 'Factual Discussion' depicts three heads (made up of fruit, kitchen utensils and writing implements respectively) endlessly devouring and regurgitating each other. 'Passionate...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Ludvík Sváb · Bedrich Glaser · Jan Kraus · Pavel Marek

Plot This short film is divided into three sections: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Veronika Zilková · Jan Hartl · Jaroslava Kretschmerová · Pavel Nový

Plot Karel Horak and his wife Bozhena are depressed at being childless. When he digs up the root of a tree in the garden, he brings it to her, taken by...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Kristýna Kohoutová · Camilla Power

Plot A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', mixing one live actor (Alice) with a large variety of stop-motion animated creatures, ranging from the complex...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Ivan Kraus · Juraj Herz

Plot A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Pavel Liska · Jan Tríska · Anna Geislerová · Jaroslav Dusek

Plot Jean Berlot, a disturbed young man befriend a Marquis whose house is the site of a number of disturbing events and then willingly enteres a mutinous asylum to try and...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Petr Meissel · Gabriela Wilhelmová · Barbora Hrzánová · Anna Wetlinská

Plot Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Václav Helsus · Klára Issová · Zuzana Krónerová · Daniela Bakerova

Plot Middle-aged man Eugene (Václav Helsus) is married to a woman his own age but tormented by dreams of a pretty young woman named Eva (Klára Issova). Eventually he realises that...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Monika Belo-Cabanová · Ol'ga Vronská · Aleksandr Letko

Plot A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Jan Zácek

Plot An adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe story.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot Elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Jirí Hálek · Ludek Kopriva · Míla Myslíková · Václav Borovicka

Plot Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Petr Cepek · Jan Kraus · Vladimír Kudla · Antonin Zacpal

Plot A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Avant-garde animator...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot In stop-time animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Miroslav Kuchar

Plot A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players then leave the football pitch...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Václav Borovicka

Plot A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot A eight-part animatied portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music - the various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda (bolero), Pisces (blues), Reptilia (tarantella), Aves (tango), Mammalia...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The...