Ivo Špalj Movies

A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.

A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.

The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also...

One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town...

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose...

A fable on the futility of progress for its own sake.

The puppet film Mashkin Killed Koshkin, based on the short story of the same name by Daniil Kharms, is a small, absurd story of two heroes who...

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

A man watches a cartoon of a cat and mouse, and cheers as the mouse scores a victory over the cat.

A neon heart installed above Prague Castle illuminated the city for the last three months of Václav Havel’s presidency in an...