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Short film

The Merry Circus

1951 · 12 min

A charming, wordless parade of surreal little creatures that feels like flipping through a painter's playful dream.

Directed by
Jiří Trnka
Genres
Animation
Overview
Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.

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Directed by
Jiří Trnka
Genres
Animation
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • freedom
  • identity
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
family
Form
  • animated
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour6
Realism1
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity4
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
animation
Directed by
Jiří Trnka
Written by
Jiří Trnka
Music
Jan Rychlík, Václav Trojan
Cinematography
Emanuel Franek
Runtime
12 min
Country
Czechoslovakia
Languages
No Language

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