Zdeněk Smetana

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Czech animator, illustrator and director (1925-2016)

WritersLived 1925 to 2016 · aged 90

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Zdeněk Smetana was a Czechoslovak-born Czech animator and graphic artist who created more than 400 animated cartoons, including full-length feature films.

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Awards 2

Klement Gottwald State Prize

Merited Artist of Czechoslovakia

Connected to Zdeněk 6

Jiřina BohdalováAlso in The Little Witch (1984)

Dana MedřickáAlso won Klement Gottwald State Prize

Zdeněk ŠtěpánekAlso won Klement Gottwald State Prize

Laco NovomeskýAlso won Klement Gottwald State Prize

Jiří KrejčíkAlso won Klement Gottwald State Prize

Karel SteklýAlso won Klement Gottwald State Prize

About this person

Zdeněk Smetana was a Czechoslovak-born Czech animator and graphic artist who created more than 400 animated cartoons, including full-length feature films. He became known for a series of Czechoslovak animated children's television bedtime stories during the 1970s and 1980s, including The Little Witch, Fairy Tales of Moss and Fern, Reedy (Rákosníček) and Štaflík a Špagetka. In 1981, Smetana's film, The End of A Cube, won a BAFTA award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He also won awards from the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival.