A Ballad About Green Wood

Balada o zelenem drevu

11 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1983
Combined
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Jiri Barta
Designer: Lenka Kerelova

A remarkable film in which puppets are combined with real-life settings. It celebrates the eternal renaissance of life in spring. The principle actors are logs of wood and the death's head crow. The story is framed with a human character whose normal actions are contrasting with the deep fatality of pagan customs. Generous animation in exteriors is exceptional in the Czech animation.

All films directed by Jiri Barta:
A Ballad About Green Wood • The Club of the Laid Off • The Design • Disc jockey • The Last Booty • The Pied Piper of Hamelin • Riddles For a Candy • The Vanished World of Gloves

All films designed by Lenka Kerelova:
A Ballad About Green Wood