Cybernetic Grandma (1963)
Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother’s loving arms again. Trnka’s artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.
Director:
Jiří Trnka
Writer:
Jiří Trnka
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Otýlie Beníšková as Narrator (voice) |
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Jana Werichová as Narrator (voice) |
| Camera | Ivan Renč | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Jan Novák | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Jiří Trnka | Director |
| Writing | Jiří Trnka | Screenplay |
| Editing | Hana Walachová | Editor |
| Art | Jiří Trnka | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Stanislav Látal | Animation |
| Production | Erna Kmínková | Assistant Production Manager |
| Sound | Emanuel Formánek | Sound |
| Visual Effects | Vlasta Pospíšilová | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Zdeněk Šob | Animation |
| Directing | Ivan Renč | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Ivan Klíma | Story |
| Visual Effects | Jan Adam | Animation |
| Camera | Jiří Šafář | Director of Photography |
| Production | Jaroslav Možíš | Production Manager |