The Shooting Gallery Open this page in a new window for printing
C. K. strelnice
5 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1969
Puppet animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Miroslav Stepanek
Designer: Miroslav Stepanek

The film revives the simple art of folk artists from old market shooting galleries to discover and express their naive poesy. It tells a symbolic story about an encounter of tender feeling and brutal violence. It is the only author's film by an important Czech animator.

All films directed by Miroslav Stepanek:
The Shooting Gallery • Hold Your Hat • How They Ate The Soup Of Wit • How They Went to Bed • What Went Bang? • And Don't Tell Me, Wendy • The Panther Who Smelt Good

All films designed by Miroslav Stepanek:
(About the) Thick Fog • (About) Mice In Tinfoil • And Don't Tell Me, Wendy • Animal Lover • The Apple Maiden • Billy the Tough And His Amazingly Strong Lasso • Billy the Tough And the Cheeky Hares • Billy the Tough And the Giant Mosquitoes • Black and White • Cats' School • Elahw the Whale • Forty Grandfathers • Hello, Kohlrabi • Hold Your Hat • How the Bears Went Swimming • How They Ate The Soup Of Wit • How They Met At Kolin • How They Went to Bed • How to Catch a Tiger • Misbehaving • On A Cat's Word • Painting Is For the Cats • The Panther Who Smelt Good • Princesses Are Not To Be Sniffed At • The Revenge • The Shooting Gallery • The Sword • The Town In Black • What the Rain Worm Did Not Have Any Idea About • What Went Bang?