In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday Today?

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Slovakia, Japan, Czech Republic

2009

74 Min

Color

1.85:1

Czech

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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CAST Barbora Hrzánová, Boris Hybner, Vladimír Javorský, Nada Konvalinková, Jiří Lábus

MUSIC Michal Pavlícek

AFI FEST, Karlovy Vary (Czech Films 2009-2010), Melbourne (Next Gen), BAFICI (BAFICITO)

Synopsis

Marking his return to animation after 20 long years, director Jirí Barta’s latest wicked brew is a welcome reminder of why stop-motion fans consider him one of the few true masters. Barta’s previous works, including The Pied Piper (1985), have been notable for their distinctive aesthetics and a knack for exploring deep, daring themes. These qualities energize In the Attic, a grand, ingenious fairy tale about friendship and standing up to tyranny. When Buttercup, the fairest doll in the land is kidnapped, it falls to her best friends—Teddy, Sir Handsome, and the spastic ball of clay Schubert—to undertake an epic quest to the darkest reaches of the attic to save her. Barta’s inventive and original world of misfit toys is a fully realized fantasy realm that will delight the young and the not-so-young alike. —AFI Film Festival

Director

Jiří Barta

Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director. His films, many of which used the medium of wood for animation, garnered critical acclaim and won many awards, but after the fall of the communist government in Czechoslovakia he was unable to release anything for about 15 years (a situation similar to that faced by Russian animator Yuriy Norshteyn). Throughout the 1990s he tried to find funding for a feature film called The Golem, but ultimately only managed to complete a short pilot in 1996 (which can be viewed online). In 2006 he released his first computer-animated short film, and on March 5, 2009 he released a new puppet-animated feature film which was geared more towards a children’s audience. —wikipedia