Jiří Barta

Working primarily during the 1980s, Jiří Barta flourished during communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, as funding was easily accessed through government grants, allowing students to develop at their own pace and direction. Initially dabbling with cutout shorts, Barta later experimented with stop-motion and puppetry, and within seven years of his first short completed The Pied Piper of Hamelin, still considered a masterpiece of Czech animation.

Known For

The Pied Piper

Toys in the Attic

The Vanished World of Gloves

Animated Self-Portraits

Riddles for a Candy

Club of the Laid Off

The Last Theft

A Ballad About Green Wood

Disc Jockey

The Design