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O Marysce a Vlcim hradku
15 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1979
Puppet animation
Audience: children
Commentary: off screen

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Vlasta Pospisilova
Designer: Dagmar Berkova

A fairy-tale about a brave, self-sacrificial and faithful girl named Maryska who sets free an enchanted princess and her twelve maids from a mysterious castle. One of the most popular Czech fairy-tales.

Awards: The Grand Prix Platero - Gijon 1980; "Silver Sheperdess and Chimney Sweeper" - Odense 1977; The prize of the children audience - Paris 1981

All films directed by Vlasta Pospisilova:
About Maryska and the Wolves Castle • And the Spring Came... • And the Winter Came... • And They Loved Each Other • Broucek in a Danger • Broucek Was Born • Broucek's Sad Return • Broucek's Secrets • Broucek's Wooing • The Fall Came... • Farewell • Have a Nice Journey, Broucek! • How Kuk and Bumble-bee Were Looking for Skok • How Kuk and Skok Were Fighting • How Professor Dung-beetle Cured Bumble-bee • How Skok and Kuk Fell Down on a Clearing • How Skok and Kuk Found Their Treasure • How Skok and Kuk Saved a Little Fly • How Skok and Kuk Were Surprised by a Flood • How Skok Got Lost • How They Met Under the Red Toadstool • Lady Poverty • Stingy Barka • Up to the Heaven, Down to the Hell • When the Leaves Have Fallen Down From the Oak

All films designed by Dagmar Berkova:
About Maryska and the Wolves Castle • Svatopluk and His Sons • Three Etudes for the Animator • The Widow from Efez