Jirí Barta

Biography

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1948, he graduated from that city’s School of Arts and Crafts. Since 1978, he collaborates both as a filmmaker and designer with the studio Kratky Film, for which he made many short films, like The Vanished World of Gloves (1982) and The Club of the Laid Off (1989). Krysar (The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1985) was his first feature length film.