Jirí Kubícek

Fimfárum Jana Wericha is divided into five independent stories, each of which is derived from a Czech folktale.

Czech animators Aurel Klimt, Vlasta Pospísilová, Jan Balej, and Bretislav Pojar -- all giants of the Czech puppet film movement -- each helm one segment of the anthology film Fimfarum 2. A sequel to the original Fimfarum, this feature provides four additional animated episodes adapted from the short stories of Czech fantasist writer Jan Werich, in the same vein as the earlier film.

The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia to find out if Ogres ever lived there. The middle tale The Hat and the Little Jay Feather concerns a king who sends his three sons to bring back a hat he left at a tavern when he was young. The third fairy tale Reason and Luck is about the two virtues of the title try to prove their importance by changing the life of a pig herder named Louis.

A full-length picture based on the famous novel by Daniel Defoe. The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe's life before and after his stay on the island. (imdb)