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    Interview: Jan Švankmajer, 2014 Bertrand Schmitt and Michel Leclerc: Les chimères des Švankmajer - Documentaire 2001, TV France Jan Švankmajer. Printing...
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  • Jan Švankmajer is a Czech film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist. "Producent Kallista dostal miliony na nový film Jana Švankmajera". Borovan...
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  • of Jan Svankmajer is a 1984 British surreal short stop-motion film by the Quay Brothers, an homage to the influential short film maker Jan Švankmajer. It...
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    for their work. Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, for whom they named one of their films (The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer), is also frequently cited as a...
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  • Alice (1988 film) (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    Alice is a 1988 surrealist dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means "Something from...
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  • Insects (film) (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    film directed by Jan Švankmajer, the film is based on the play Pictures from the Insects' Life by Karel and Josef Čapek. Švankmajer stated that the film...
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  • Dimensions of Dialogue (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    of Dialogue) is a 1983 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It is 14 minutes long and created with stop motion. The animation is...
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  • suffered by a lunatic, now used only informally Lunacy (film), a 2005 Jan Švankmajer film Lunacy (video game), a video game for the Sega Saturn video game...
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    all clay animation. The Czech animator Jan Švankmajer uses pixilation in most of his work; most notably Food. Jan Kounen's Gisele Kerozene (1989), a short...
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    director Josef Rovenský Evald Schorm Bohdan Sláma Karel Steklý Jan Sviták Jan Švankmajer Jan Svěrák, twice won the Academy Award Jiří Trnka, puppet motion-picture...
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  • The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    surrealist short film by Jan Švankmajer. In 1990 the BBC asked Švankmajer to make a film about situation in Czechoslovakia. Švankmajer later remarked: "Despite...
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  • Castle of Otranto (film) (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    (Czech: Otrantský zámek) is a 1977 Czechoslovak animated short film by Jan Švankmajer. It is based on Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. The...
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  • Surviving Life (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    Surviving Life (Czech: Přežít svůj život) is a 2010 Czech comedy film by Jan Švankmajer, starring Václav Helšus, Klára Issová and Zuzana Kronerová. The film...
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    Sedlec Ossuary (category Jan Santini Aichel buildings)
    1970, the 100th anniversary of Rint's contributions, Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer was commissioned to document the ossuary. The result was a 10-minute-long...
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  • film directed by Terry Gilliam Jabberwocky (1971 film), directed by Jan Švankmajer Jabberwocky (TV series) (1972–1974), American children's television...
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  • Little Otik (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 Czech surreal dark comedy horror film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. Based on the folktale Otesánek by Karel Jaromír...
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  • Eva Švankmajerová (category Jan Švankmajer)
    production assistant, director: Jan Švankmajer 1967 – The Garden (org. Zahrada) – costume designer, director: Jan Švankmajer 1971 – Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden...
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    Lion Award for Best Actor in Leading Role for his performance in the Jan Švankmajer film Lunacy. Although he occasionally visited the Czech Republic, Tříska...
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  • Notable Czech animators include Jiří Trnka, Karel Zeman, Břetislav Pojar, Jan Švankmajer, Vera Neubauer, Hermína Týrlová, and Jiří Barta. Czech animators have...
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    psychological impact is František Vláčil. Another international author is Jan Švankmajer, a filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled...
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  • Faust (1994 film) (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    Faust') is a 1994 live-action/animated film directed and written by Jan Švankmajer. An international co-production between the Czech Republic, France,...
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  • (1960 film), directed by Peter Gorski Faust (1994 film), directed by Jan Švankmajer Faust: Love of the Damned (film) (2000), directed by Brian Yuzna Dark...
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  • by Roger Corman The Fall of the House of Usher (1980 film) film by Jan Švankmajer The House of Usher (1989 film), directed by Alan Birkinshaw The House...
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  • Fether"[3] by Edgar Allan Poe Lunacy, a horror film by Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, partilally based on the story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor...
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  • United States, and Aleksandr Ptushko, Karel Zeman and, more recently, Jan Švankmajer in Eastern Europe. The first feature film combining these forms was...
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    swings lower and lower, as in Poe's story. In 1983, Czech Surrealist Jan Švankmajer directed a 15-minute live-action short film called The Pendulum, the...
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    Landau, Robert Hays, Ray Walston and Charlene Tilton. Czech director Jan Švankmajer adapted the story into the 1980 short film Zánik domu Usherů, which...
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    for prestige. Lekce Faust (Faust) Directed by Jan Švankmajer, 1994 – The source material of Švankmajer's film is the Faust legend; including traditional...
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  • Food (film) (category Films directed by Jan Švankmajer)
    (Czech: Jídlo) is a 1992 Czech animated comedy short film directed by Jan Švankmajer that uses claymation and pixilation. It examines the human relationship...
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  • with surreal, dreamlike scenes and encounters.[circular reference] Jan Švankmajer, a member of the still-active Czech Surrealist Group, continues to direct...
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