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Straka zlodejka
12 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1976
Cut-out animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: none

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Josef Kluge
Designer: Frantisek Skala

An episode from the series about the basics of hunting. It is about a magpie that stole the gamekeeper's transistor and caused a breach of the forest peace by loud music. After a series of unsuccessful attempts, the gamekeeper restored the order in the forest. The film aims to provoke the audience to think about its behaviour towards nature.

All films of the series Hunters' Tales:
Beware of the Bear • The Magpie Thief • On a Shooting Stand • Tarnation • To Hunt a Chamois • The Trophy • The Wet Halali

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 Frantisek Skala:
Beware of the Bear • Cheers • The Eyes • The Magpie Thief • On a Shooting Stand • Tarnation • To Hunt a Chamois • The Trophy • The Wet Halali