Bajaja 1950 Ages 15+
When
1.00 pm, Sat 15 Sep 2018 (87 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
'Based on a pair of Czech fables, this rousing, medieval-set adventure charts the exploits of a young peasant whose dead mother returns in the form of a white horse, whisking him away on a quest to free her soul from purgatory and save three princesses from a host of hydra-headed dragons. Balancing moments of atmospheric lyricism with vigorous action sequences, the third feature-length collaboration between Trnka and composer Vaclav Trojan—who contributes a stirring, cantata-like score set to text by Surrealist writer Vitezslav Nezval—confirms the pair to be a creative partnership as fruitful as Eisenstein and Prokofiev or Hitchcock and Herrmann.' – Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Jirí Trnka
- Script: Jirí Trnka, Bozena Nemocová, Vítězslav Nezval, Frantisek Braun, Jan Novák, Karel Sobotka
- Cinematographers: Emanuel Franek, Ludvík Hájek
- Music: Václav Trojan
- Production Company: Ceskoslovenský Státní Film
- Print Source / Rights: National Film Archive Prague
- Screening Format: DCP, 35mm
- Year: 1950
- Runtime: 87 minutes
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Language: Czech
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Colour