FILM DIRECTOR

Břetislav Pojar

1923 - 2012

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Břetislav Pojar (7 October 1923 – 12 October 2012) was a Czech puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films. Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Břetislav Pojar has received more than 36,010 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Břetislav Pojar is the 1,181st most popular film director, the 668th most popular biography from Czechia and the 25th most popular Czech Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Břetislav Pojar ranks 1,181 out of 2,041. Before him are Luciano Emmer, Károly Makk, Tomas Alfredson, Jon Avnet, Lajos Koltai, and Nelly Kaplan. After him are Hany Abu-Assad, Benny Chan, Ardeshir Irani, Jaume Collet-Serra, Lee Tamahori, and Niels Arden Oplev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Břetislav Pojar ranks 364. Before him are Murray Walker, Donald Nicol, Liviu Ciulei, Lidiya Vertinskaya, Ken Kavanagh, and Thea Beckman. After him are Brian Naylor, Roy Dotrice, Halfdan T. Mahler, Elizabeth Hawley, Piero D'Inzeo, and Vladimír Zábrodský. Among people deceased in 2012, Břetislav Pojar ranks 329. Before him are Salvador Reyes Monteón, Evelyn Lear, Eugênio Sales, Friedhelm Konietzka, Igor Kvasha, and Hal David. After him are Emanuel Steward, Luis Aponte Martínez, Hans Nowak, Horst Faas, Michael O'Hare, and Tony Leblanc.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Břetislav Pojar ranks 668 out of 1,200. Before him are Petr Bezruč (1867), Miroslav Votava (1956), Jiří Feureisl (1931), Ivan Král (1948), Oldřich Machač (1946), and František Ondříček (1857). After him are Oldřich Lajsek (1925), Michal Bílek (1965), Wenzel Müller (1767), Karolína Kurková (1984), Lubomir Kavalek (1943), and Karel Absolon (1877).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Czechia

Among film directors born in Czechia, Břetislav Pojar ranks 25. Before him are Gustav Machatý (1901), Edgar G. Ulmer (1904), Jan Němec (1936), Karel Kachyňa (1924), Oldřich Lipský (1924), and Martin Frič (1902). After him are Jiří Weiss (1913), Jan Svěrák (1965), and Jan Hřebejk (1967).

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Filmography

Winter Days
Director
Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
Nov 27th 20035.7 / 10
The Lion and the Song
Director
A musician is playing his music to some animals, when a hungry lion shows up.
Nov 27th 19596.6 / 10
Fimfarum 2
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In this antological film, four fairy tales from the book by Jan Werich, each one by a different director. Břetislav Pojar directs the story of Thumbelina, Aurel Klimt "The Hunchbacks of Damascus", Vlasta Pospíšilová "Three Sisters and a Ring" and Jan Balej close the film with "The Sea, Uncle, Why is it Salty?".
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