I’ve heard my father’s home country of the Czech Republic (Czechia) called, “The Wild West of Europe.” That people went there when they, “wanted to do drugs and shoot illegal fireworks.” It’s quite ...

Jan Svankmajer, 67, is a Czech filmmaker, animator and mixed media artist who made his first animated film back in 1964. Employing such devices as stop-action, claymation, puppetry and pixillation — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Svankmajer has worked in many genres and media, and is best known for such features as “Alice” (1988), “Faust” (1994), ...

For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time.

It's perfectly grotesque material for a Svankmajer movie. "We have touched on one of the basic myths of this civilization: the myth of Adam and Eve, or, if you wish, a myth analogous to that of Faust, ...