Josef Čapek

Insect

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director’s instructions. It’s clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of "The Insect Play", a famous satirical work from 1922 by the brothers Karel and Josef Čapek which features insects with decidedly human traits: greed, egocentrism, jealousy.

Shades of Fern

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.

How The Cat And The Dog Washed The Floor

A cat and a dog lived together. They were very good friends, so when they saw that the floor in their house was dirty, they decided to clean up together. But an ordinary mop refused to deal with the task, so they have to wash and wipe the floor using each other. What will this novel idea lead to?

How a Dog And a Cat Used To Write

What happened to a dog and a cat when they decided to write a letter to the children about liking all the dogs and cats in the world. Evening adaptation of the tale from Čapkov Talking about a dog and a cat.

About The Doll That Wept Thinly

A dog and a cat have a long time like this because of the rain, so they talk about how it would be nice to have some toys when the weather is bad outside. The next day, when it is already nice and the animals go outside, they find a crying doll thrown in the grass, who is sorry that her little girl forgot her. So the dog and the cat take care of her.

About The Proud Nightgown

He hopped, jumped, played with a cat in the meadow, rolled barrels, did somersaults and all kinds of other comedies, and in the process somewhere he got a sharp splinter in his paw. It was a small splinter, but it hurt a lot and he couldn't step on that leg very well. Cat proceeds to cure his paw while telling him a story about the proud nightgown.

How Dog With Cat Baked a Cake

A dog and a cat will bake a big cake. What do they put in that cake? How will it be baked? How will he decorate it? Come and watch a great cooking adventure with us...

How a Dog And a Cat Washed The Floor

One day, a dog and a cat saw how filthy their house was. They decided to clean her up. It was quite a cleaning, until their heads were spinning and their paws hurt! And how did they do it? See for yourself...

How Dog Tore His Pants

When the dog and the cat still farmed together (however, we talked about it here, how skillfully they washed the floor and how they both dried themselves in the sun afterwards) and they still had their house and ran their business in it, there was one Easter Sunday, and so they said they would go on a trip together.

The Insect Play

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.