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Clovek pod vodou
19 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1961
Classical cartoon animation
Audience: family
Commentary: off screen

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

Funny history of the development of submarines. A picture that offers solid information on man's effort to explore the life of the ocean deeps and at the same time comments on these efforts with light irony and humour so typical for the master of Czech animation - Jiri Brdecka.

Awards: Honourable diploma - Cannes 1964

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 Kamil Lhotak:
An Airship and Love • How Man Learned to Fly • Man Under Water • Xantipa and Socrates