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Kresadlo
17 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1985
Puppet animation
Audience: children
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Dagmar Doubkova
Designer: Dagmar Doubkova

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess.

Awards: The prize of film critics for the best animated picture - Gijon 1986; Silver Medal - San Giovanni Valdarno 1989

All films directed by Dagmar Doubkova:
A Dream Not To Be Fulfilled • The Flint • Good-bye, Ofelia • Shakespeare 2000

All films designed by Dagmar Doubkova:
A Dream Not To Be Fulfilled • The Flint • Good-bye, Ofelia • Shakespeare 2000