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Hadanky za bonbon
8 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1978
Semi relief animation
Audience: children
Commentary: off screen

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

An extraordinary picture by Jiri Barta. The main hero, the guesser, solves three riddles together with the children audience. The riddles are presented as animated picture-puzzles. Of course, eventually the guesser solves the riddles and the children have the good feeling of having participated in a puzzle-tale.

All films directed by Jiri Barta:
A Ballad About Green Wood • The Club of the Laid Off • The Design • Disc jockey • The Last Booty • The Pied Piper of Hamelin • Riddles For a Candy • The Vanished World of Gloves

All films designed by Jiri Barta:
The Design • Disc jockey • The Last Booty • The Pied Piper of Hamelin • Riddles For a Candy • The Vanished World of Gloves