杨·史云梅耶 — Director (37)
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Darkness, Light, Darkness (1990) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Tma/Svetlo/Tma
★ 8.6 (86 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶
other title: Tma, světlo, tma / 闇・光・闇 …
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
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Leonardo's Diary (1972) IMDb TMDB Douban
Leonarduv denik
★ 7.1 (21 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶
other title: 莱昂纳多的日记 / Leonarduv denik …
Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.
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Jabberwocky (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta
★ 9.2 (68 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶
other title: 荒唐童话 / Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta …
Lewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
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The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1991) Douban
Konec stalinismu v Cechách
★ 8.6 (62 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶
other title: 斯大林主义在波希米亚的终结 / Konec stalinismu v Cechách …
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.
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Lunacy (2005) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Sílení
★ 7.8 (30 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶 actor: 扬·特日斯卡 / 帕沃·里斯卡 …
other title: 梦魇疯人院 / Sílení …
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man might have predicted.
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Alice (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Něco z Alenky
★ 8.4 (149 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶 actor: 克里斯蒂娜·科荷多娃
other title: 爱丽丝 / Něco z Alenky …
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare — no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
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Greedy Guts (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Otesánek
★ 8.0 (64 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶 actor: Veronika Zilková / 扬·哈特尔 …
other title: 贪吃树 / Otesánek …
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
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Food (1993) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Jídlo
★ 9.1 (212 ratings) director: 杨·史云梅耶 actor: Ludvík Sváb / Bedrich Glaser …
other title: 食物 / Jídlo …
1992 Czech animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer