Terezka is in love with Antonínek, a shepherd boy. However, her father, an old blacksmith, does not approve of their love, as he would rather see his daughter married to a decent man who could light a fire with his breath and to whom he could pass on his smithy. Poor Antonínek has no choice but to seek help from a dwarf living in the rocks. The dwarf gives him a bellows, and in the end, everything turns out well.
A tale of the power of motherly love to break down the nonsensical laws about the worship of beauty as the highest value of human life.
A star fell to Earth. And so a star boy appeared on our planet. He was agile and clever, but cruel and cold. Even his mother, who had been searching for him for years and therefore showed up in the rags of a beggar, he had pushed him away and hurt him. But fate gave him a chance to correct his mistakes.
The star Svituška, paired with the admired Sirius, is one day cast down to earth by the jealous star Proxima. Svituška falls into a village where she is found and cared for by a teacher named Václav. Svituška has only a few days to return to the sky or she will perish. She relies on Sirius to rescue her, but intrigues by Proxima keep him away. Each evening, Václav watches the princess skating on the frozen lake and harbors a secret love for her. One night, Svituška accompanies him and, upon seeing the princess, rekindles her own light, fueled by the power of Václav’s pure love for the princess. With Václav’s help, Svituška will survive until she can return to the heavens.
A never ending polar night reigns. The agitated residents of a village truns to a shaman but he won't help them. A brave young hunter goes in search for the sun.
There are fairy tales that appear on TV screens every Christmas and there are fairy tales that have somewhat fallen into oblivion and few people remember them anymore. This is one of the lesser known ones. Its plot certainly needs no further introduction. After all, the fairy tale story of the Swimmer, the charcoal-maker's son, to whom the judges attribute the hand of a royal princess born at the same moment, is one of those which are not forgotten. And the Swimmer's difficult journey in pursuit of an almost impossible task, the three golden hairs of Grandfather Allfather, who is the Sun and dislikes mankind, is as fabulous as the advice he brings to three towns beset by strange woes.
The story of the clever Princess Diana, who longs to know true love and faces many obstacles, aims to captivate audiences of all generations. Diana mysteriously loses her former beauty and tries to regain it. She also encounters much humiliation, ridicule and anger along the way. But courage and her miraculous sensitive nose help her overcome all obstacles and fulfill her greatest dream.
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.
Who would have thought that the magician Magiáš would need a doctor! But when it came to it and Magiáš lost his voice, his assistant Vincek had to try very hard to get famous doctors - from Hronov, Kostelecký and Skalický - to come to Hejšovina. Because doctors have to help the sick, even if they don't think anything good about them, they cured the magician Magiáš after all.
German/Austrian TV adaptation of the famous fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast“. There is only one way to break the spell which has turned the prince into a horrible beast: a beautiful girl has to fall in love with the creature. As time is running out, the beast abducts the girl Elsa and takes her prisoner. He puts all his efforts into charming the girl. Elsa does not accept her fate, and the beast is not at all a gentleman with fine manners. The transformative power of love, which frees Elsa of her feelings of guilt towards her parents and which returns the beast to his former humanity, is at the heart of the film. Aimed at a family audience, the film's eerie scenes are balanced with humor and poetry.
A young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world.
The first animation by gingerbread
A white cat owns a mill, but loses the mill to a black cat and the devil. Latvian animation.
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About the strange tasks Jeník was given in order to win the princess's hand... The advisor to Princess Lucie's suitors comes up with strange tasks, and the king is satisfied. His collection of coveted items continues to grow, but the princess remains unmarried. It is only with the arrival of Jeník, who also came to seek her hand, that things come to light that will end the endless courtship. Jeník and Princess Lucie are happy, and those who deserve it are punished.
The story tells about a girl who was poor, but on the other hand so good and hardworking that she received a special gift from fate. A spinning wheel on which she could spin golden threads. And there was a count who liked her, but he liked the gold she brought with her to his house even better. And because he was greedy and wanted more and more gold, he decided that he too would weave the threads, even if his fingers were to fall off. And so he wove and wove, forgetting all that was good and beautiful around him. The girl, his friends, the whole world. But until then, the golden threads are woven, until the yarn breaks and fate says enough...
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A fairy tale about two princesses - sisters, one of whom wasbeautiful and superficial and the other less beautiful, but wise and saved the kingdom from famine. Where there was there was a kingdom in which lived two princesses. Pretty Margaret and wise Marietta. As they grew up, the differences between them deepened. Margareta was all finesse and longed for rich courtship all her days, while Marieta learned much from people, but also by observing nature. And so it came to pass that a handsome prince visited the kingdom, and both girls fell in love with him. At first he seemed to be in awe of Margaret's beauty, but in time his enchantment wore off and he began to take more notice of the spirited Margaret. But she put him to the test...
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