The Beatitude of Love Open this page in a new window for printing
Rozmary lasky
8 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1966
Classical cartoon animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Studio Bratri v triku
Director: Jiri Brdecka
Designer: Jiri Trnka

A poetic story by one of the corner-stones of the Czech animation. With a slight nostalgia he tells a story of a man who all his life longs for what he cannot get at the moment and does not appreciate what he does have. Imaginations are more important for him than the reality. Brdecka through his film expresses the saying that the beatitude of love takes but a moment while the sadness of love lasts for all our lives.

Awards: Honourable Diploma - Cork 1966, "Silver Pelican" - Mamaia 1966, "Silver Dragon" - Cracow 1967, First prize in the category of animated pictures - Montevideo 1967

All films directed by Jiri Brdecka:
An Airship and Love • The Beatitude of Love • The Copper Prince's Thirteenth Chamber • The Face • How Man Learned to Fly • How the Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser • Incorrectly Drawn Hen • Looove! • Man Under Water • Metamorpheus • Reason and Emotion • The Revenge • Slovce M • There Was a Miller On a River • Up To the Huntsman's Watch • What I Did Not Say To the Prince • Why Are You Smiling, Mona Lisa?

All films designed by Jiri Trnka:
About the Golden Fish • Ancient Czech Myths • The Animals and the People of Petrov • Archangel Gabriel and Ms Goose • Bajaja • The Beatitude of Love • The Cybernetic Grandmother • The Devil's Mill • The Emperor's Nightingale • From Hatvan to Galicia • From Putim to Putim • The Gift • The Ginger-bread House • Grandpa Planted a Beet • The Hand • The "Hurvinek" Circus • The Jolly Circus • The Midnight Adventure • The Midsummer Night's Dream • The Novel With the Double-bass • One Glass Too Many • Passion • Prairie Aria • Schweik's Misfortunes on the Train • The Spring-Man and the SS • A Treasury of Fairy-tales • Two Little Frosts • Umbrella