Václav Bedřich
Václav Bedřich (28 August 1918, Příbram – 7 March 2009) was Czech animator, actor, and film director. He is best known for his children's TV animation.[1][2][3]
He created 358 animated films, which earned him a number of awards at domestic and international film festivals.[1][3]
Selected filmography
[edit]- 1944: Wedding in the Coral Sea
- 1953: Hrnečku, vař! ("Cook, Little Pot!") [4]
- 1955: Devil and Káča, 44min. animation based on the fairy tale Devil and Káča by Božena Němcová. Lucifer asks his sidekick to bring the most evil princess from the Earth. By mistake a peasant girl Káča was brought and she raised a hell in hell.
- 1960: Čtyřicet dědečků (Forty Old Men; direction and scenario), 8 min. animation; a gretesque story about magic pot which multiplies anything what was put inside[5]
- Honorable mention at the 9th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (1963)[5]
- 1961: Calypso Cat
- 1962: Mouse into Space
- 1962: The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit
- 1966: Pohádky ovčí babičky
- 1971: Poppy Dolly
- 1971–2014: Štaflík a Špagetka[6]
- 1973: Víla Amálka
- 1975: Maxipes Fík
- 1978: Bob a Bobek – králíci z klobouku (Bob and Bobby – the Rabbits from a Hat)
- 1980: O zvířátkách pana Krbce
- 1981: Maxipes Fík II
- 1981: Sredni Vaštar (director); 29min., drawn animation, based on Sredni Vashtar by Hector Hugh Munro [7]
- 1986: The Great Cheese Robbery, where Bedřich was both the director and an actor[1] It is a 47-minute movie about three mice living in a cinema. After watching many thrillers they planned a "great cheese robbery". It is a parody of the The Great Train Robbery. [8]
- 1969-1976: Smrtící vůně A seven-part series of animated parodies on horror stories in which a young couple successfully evades traps set by an evil scientist and his sidekicks.[9][10][3]
Awards== In addition to the film awards, in 1960 he was awarded the Silver badge of an exemplary worker by the Ministry of Education and Culture[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Zemřel režisér večerníčkové znělky Václav Bedřich". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. 7 March 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ^ a b Hana Ročňáková, in Czech: Příbramský rodák Václav Bedřich, autor celé řady večerníčků i jeho znělky in English: Václav Bedřich (1918-2009)
- ^ a b c Přední český animátor a režisér Václav Bedřich se zítra dožije devadesáti let
- ^ Jan Křipač, Animated Fairy-Tales of Václav Bedřich, August 7, 2020
- ^ a b 40 dědečků
- ^ Czech Dog Names
- ^ Sredni Vaštar
- ^ The Great Cheese Robbery
- ^ https://arl.nfa.cz/arl-nfa/cs/detail-nfa_un_auth-0104983-Smrtici-vune/ Smrtící vůně
- ^ Uloupený obraz (1976)
- ^ Smrtící vůně
- ^ Stolen image | wordless animation by Václav Bedřich
- ^ Václav Bedrich