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Kouzelny sad

15 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1982
Cut-out animation
Audience: children
Commentary: off screen

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Libuse Paleckova
Designer: Josef Palecek

A picture based on a Kazakh folk tale about human unselfishness and self-sacrifice. Poor peasants find a treasure in the desert. They want to buy the desert precious fruit-trees to make the desert green. However, on their way to market, they buy instead some birds to set them free and to prevent them from ending up at khan's table. The peasants are rewarded for their magnanimity. At night the birds bring seeds of rare plants and in the desert a magic orchard, an oasis for all good and just people, is created.

All films directed by Libuse Paleckova:
The Magic OrchardTylinek

All films designed by Josef Palecek:
The Little TigerThe Magic OrchardTylinek