The Merry Circus

  • January 1951
  • 12mins

  • Animation
  • Directed by

    Jiří Trnka,

    Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.