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Prince Bayaya

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Prince Bayaya
Directed byJiří Trnka
Written byBozena Nemcová
Screenplay byJirí Trnka
Produced byCeskoslovenský Státní Film
StarringJana Kuhna
CinematographyEmanuel Franek
Ludvík Hájek
Music byVáclav Trojan
Distributed byProcinex
Státní Pujcovna Filmu
Release date
  • 11 October 1950 (1950-10-11)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguageCzech

Prince Bayaya (Czech: Bajaja) is a 1950 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka.

Plot

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Poor half-orphan Bayaya is attracted by a call one day. He is called by his deceased mother who is experiencing her purgatory transformed into a white horse. She convinces Baya to go on a journey with her. Next steps lead them to a kingdom where three princesses are waiting to be sacrificed to dragons. Bayaya defeats all three dragons and chooses his future wife among the princesses. But at his mother's request, he must not reveal that he is the hero who saved the princesses. However, after a series of further disappointments, he gets a well-deserved happy ending.

Animation

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  • Břetislav Pojar - Bayaya
  • Jan Karpaš - Princesses
  • Bohuslav Šrámek - Grooms and Knights
  • Zdeněk Hrabě - King
  • Stanislav Látal - Jester
  • František Braun - Armorers

Awards

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1954 Locarno International Film Festival[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
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