The Backbiters

Pomlouvaci

3 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1967
Puppet animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Josef Kluge
Designer: Hana Stepankova

A short showing how gossip and faking can destroy even the most firm feelings between two people. The story is told in a most monumental but general manner.

Awards: The main prize - "Silver Dragon" - Cracow 1968

All films directed by Josef Kluge:
The Adventure of the Magic Stick • The Backbiters • Beware of the Bear • The Brave Princess • Budulinek Mandelinka • Cheers • Expedition to Hrusice • The Fairy Tale about Kokes the Goat • Grandmother Tells a Fairy Tale • How Herod Recovered • How Mike the Cat Saved Bobes • Lazy Johnny • Lysaj's Dream • The Magpie Thief • Mike The Cat - A Hero • Mike The Cat and His Magic Stick • Mike The Cat and the Circus • Mike The Cat at a Fair • Mike The Cat at Home • Mike The Cat Gets Lost • Mike The Cat Learns to Speak • Mike The Cat Picks Pears • Mike The Cat Practises Sorcery • Mike The Cat Tells a Fairy-Tale • The Mysterious Tom-Cat • Nacicek Goes Shopping • On a Shooting Stand • The Organ-Grinder's Fairy Tale • Pepik the Painter • Scary Mike The Cat • Sultan the Detective • Surprise in Hrusice • Tarnation • To Hunt a Chamois • The Trophy • The Wet Halali • What Uncle Malinovsky Said • Worries About Granny • Xantipa and Socrates

All films designed by Hana Stepankova:
The Backbiters