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Břetislav Pojar
Directing
07 Oct 1923
† 12 Oct 2012
Susice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
Břetislav Pojar (7 October 1923 – 12 October 2012) was a Czech puppeteer, animator, and director of short and feature films. Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Pojar served as a puppeteer under his mentor Trnka. Pojar compiled an extensive body of work as a director and animator in Czechoslovakia, where he made ...
Also Known As
Bretislav Pojar, Бржетислав Пояр
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