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Pani Bida
16 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1983
Puppet animation
Audience: children
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Vlasta Pospisilova
Designer: Sarka Vachova

A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who unmistakably and without any hesitation catches one lazy fellow after another. However, she is helpless when she comes across a diligent and work-loving fellow. Poverty simply cannot be destroyed but can be defeated.

Awards: Second prize - "Silver Plaque" - Chicago 1984; Honourable mention - Hiroshima 1985; First prize in the category of puppet films - Chicago 1985; Special honourable mention of the jury - Bourg en Bresse 1987

All films directed by Vlasta Pospisilova:
About Maryska and the Wolves Castle • And the Spring Came... • And the Winter Came... • And They Loved Each Other • Broucek in a Danger • Broucek Was Born • Broucek's Sad Return • Broucek's Secrets • Broucek's Wooing • The Fall Came... • Farewell • Have a Nice Journey, Broucek! • How Kuk and Bumble-bee Were Looking for Skok • How Kuk and Skok Were Fighting • How Professor Dung-beetle Cured Bumble-bee • How Skok and Kuk Fell Down on a Clearing • How Skok and Kuk Found Their Treasure • How Skok and Kuk Saved a Little Fly • How Skok and Kuk Were Surprised by a Flood • How Skok Got Lost • How They Met Under the Red Toadstool • Lady Poverty • Stingy Barka • Up to the Heaven, Down to the Hell • When the Leaves Have Fallen Down From the Oak

All films designed by Sarka Vachova:
Lady Poverty