Dušan Schaffer

Sonata for a Red-Haired Girl

A red haired Petra is not your ordinary girl - in addition to her regular "girly" interests she's also a goalie in boys football team.

I Wouldn't Leave Tereza for Any Other Girl

An animal lover father brings home a cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world and adopts her as a pet...

The Legend of the Silver Fir

According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.

Marcelka

A rich man can not cheer his daughter Marcelka. He calls overseas doctors and tries to repaint his castle but nothing helps. Only young boy Petrik is able to amuse Marcelka with his artistry.

Just Because You're Grown-Up

Eleven-year old Mísa has the temperament of a proper boy and endless problems with the grown-ups. It is no wonder that he longs to become an adult without further delay. Mísa keeps house together with his father and has various duties. After a failed attempt at dish-washing he goes off to the research institute where his father is working on an important invention. He is trying to produce a substance that would make poultry and other animals bigger and thus help the struggle against famine in the world, but so far he has only managed to produce a shrinking substance. After his father leaves the laboratory, Mísa mixes up different ingredients and makes the growth substance. He drinks it and instantly becomes an adult. His father, conversely, turns into a toddler after drinking the shrinking substance with his beer by mistake.

The Giraffe in the Window

Thieves Svarc and Cihák are interrupted in their robbery of a jeweler's store. In order to disappear as quickly as possible, they jump into the nearest car and leave, finding on the way that a little boy named Jirka, son of the car's owner, is with them. They take him to a cottage where Cihák's eighteen-year old daughter Milena attends to him. Jirka first treats Milena with hostility, but as days pass, the "prisoner" and the "guard" become close. Milena cooks for the boy and takes care of him, but nothing can intimidate the dauntless Jirka and he seeks for the first opportunity to escape.

Lost in Pajamas

Tanya, a 10-year-old Russian tourist traveling with her parents from Prague to Brno, is left behind in a foreign country. Tanya leaves her compartment when the train stops because of a cow. Disobeying her parent's instructions, she gets off the train to investigate, lingers too long, and is left behind. Cold, lonely, and clad only in her pajamas in the unfamiliar countryside, the girl is relieved to meet up with two rather nervous Czech boys camping out together for the first time. At first the would-be "cowboys" are frightened by her ghost-like appearance. After hearing her story, the boys find Tanya a dress to wear and accompany the girl on foot to her final destination, Brno.

For Boys Only Is for Girls Too

A story of Ivana - a young girl who's' very good in soccer and even helps the boys team to win an important game.

Holiday with Minka

A story about a group of countryside children and their pony.

The Curious Letter

An adventurous letter that wandered around the world instead of rushing to a summer camp to see its little recipient.

The Lost Doll

A lovely fairytale for all tells the story of a doll that is lost, and with the help of other toys is looking for a way to her friend

The Choo-Choo Train

A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.

The Knot in the Handkerchief

A boy makes a knot in his handkerchief to remind himself to repair his leaky faucet. The handkerchief, however, is alive and kicking, and flees from its pocket to explore the outside world. The boy gets distracted by a game of soccer, forgetting the faucet. In the meantime, the handkerchief meets other pieces of fabric that come to life.

Kalamajka

Children with their musical instruments are able to drive lazy Martin out of the furnace and punish him for his laziness.

The Pig Shepard

Puppet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.

King Lavra

A king hides an embarrassing secret - and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.

Proud 640

A picture of the new step-by-step process of building construction called "flow 640", which ensures optimal continuity of the individual professional parts of building construction.

Skořepiny

Documentary film about the use of new methods in the construction of the shell roof of the tannery hall in Gottwaldov.

Nový dům

Documentary film about new working methods in the construction industry. It introduces the viewer to new procedures and compares them with past times.

Nevýnosná linka

Documentary film about the development of underdeveloped regions of the Czechoslovak Republic thanks to the expansion of the public transport network.