Synopsis

The film contains three Jan Werich’s fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Šumava mountains in Southern Bohemia to find out whether Ogres ever lived there. The middle tale The Hat and the Little Jay Feather concerns a king who sends his three sons to bring back a hat he left at a tavern when he was young. The third and longest fairy tale Reason and Luck is about the two virtues of the title try to prove their importance by changing the life of a pig herder named Louis.

Kristina Dufkova

Kristina Dufková (1978) studied animation at the Film and TV Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Aside from animation films, she works in illustration and graphic design. She has made several music videos, and short animation films produced within the FAMU School: From the Lives of Mothers (2006), Little Fairy Tales (2006), Miroslava (2008).

Vlasta Pospíšilová

Vlasta Pospíšilová (1935) has during studying specialized on puppet-leading and stage designing. In 1956, she enrolled as an animator in the studio of puppet film in Prague, where Jiři Trnka was preparing a feature animated film A Midsummer Night's Dream. With his artistic guidance, she acquired professional skills that she used in all her following films. In the late 1970s she started to direct puppet animation films. In the 1990s she created 30 episodes for the puppet animated serial Fireflies.

 

David Súkup

David Súkup (1974) studied at Film School Zlin at the Animation Department. He has worked as an animator assistant at Jiři Trnka Studio. In 2006 he made his graduation film The Tree within MA studies at FAMU.