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Xantipa a Sokrates
14 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1961
Puppet animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Josef Kluge
Designer: Kamil Lhotak

An amusing sci-fi about matrimonial problems in Socrates's family shows that even in the era of technical achievements one cannot live without love. The immortal antique couple is transformed in the far future, i.e. the story is placed in decoration of a sci-fi.

All films directed by Josef Kluge:
The Adventure of the Magic Stick • The Backbiters • Beware of the Bear • The Brave Princess • Budulinek Mandelinka • Cheers • Expedition to Hrusice • The Fairy Tale about Kokes the Goat • Grandmother Tells a Fairy Tale • How Herod Recovered • How Mike the Cat Saved Bobes • Lazy Johnny • Lysaj's Dream • The Magpie Thief • Mike The Cat - A Hero • Mike The Cat and His Magic Stick • Mike The Cat and the Circus • Mike The Cat at a Fair • Mike The Cat at Home • Mike The Cat Gets Lost • Mike The Cat Learns to Speak • Mike The Cat Picks Pears • Mike The Cat Practises Sorcery • Mike The Cat Tells a Fairy-Tale • The Mysterious Tom-Cat • Nacicek Goes Shopping • On a Shooting Stand • The Organ-Grinder's Fairy Tale • Pepik the Painter • Scary Mike The Cat • Sultan the Detective • Surprise in Hrusice • Tarnation • To Hunt a Chamois • The Trophy • The Wet Halali • What Uncle Malinovsky Said • Worries About Granny • Xantipa and Socrates

All films designed by Kamil Lhotak:
An Airship and Love • How Man Learned to Fly • Man Under Water • Xantipa and Socrates