Forty Grandfathers
Ctyricet dedecku
8 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1962
Classical cartoon animation
Audience: children
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Studio Bratri v triku
Director: Vaclav Bedrich
Designer: Miroslav Stepanek

An old humorous folk tale about a magic pot that was able to multiply without limits anything that was put into it and the trouble that resulted from grandfather's fall into the pot. The traditional motifs were substituted by modern ones and thus a new temperament of cartoon comedy was created.

Awards: One of the eight honourable mentions - Oberhausen 1963

All films directed by Vaclav Bedrich:
Automatic • Beer To Go • Billy the Tough And His Amazingly Strong Lasso • Billy the Tough And the Cheeky Hares • Billy the Tough And the Giant Mosquitoes • Black and White • The Devil and Kaca • The Drown Submarine • Forty Grandfathers • Good Morning • The Great Cheese Robbery • The Killing Fragrance • Mr Arn's Treasure • Princess with Horns • A Purgative Bath • A Spoilt Wedding • Sredni Vashtar • The Stolen Portrait • Thank You, Gentlemen! • The Treasure in the Pyramid • The Unfinished Weekend

All films designed by Miroslav Stepanek:
(About the) Thick Fog • (About) Mice In Tinfoil • And Don't Tell Me, Wendy • Animal Lover • The Apple Maiden • Billy the Tough And His Amazingly Strong Lasso • Billy the Tough And the Cheeky Hares • Billy the Tough And the Giant Mosquitoes • Black and White • Cats' School • Elahw the Whale • Forty Grandfathers • Hello, Kohlrabi • Hold Your Hat • How the Bears Went Swimming • How They Ate The Soup Of Wit • How They Met At Kolin • How They Went to Bed • How to Catch a Tiger • Misbehaving • On A Cat's Word • Painting Is For the Cats • The Panther Who Smelt Good • Princesses Are Not To Be Sniffed At • The Revenge • The Shooting Gallery • The Sword • The Town In Black • What the Rain Worm Did Not Have Any Idea About • What Went Bang?

 

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