Prince Bayaya

1950 film

11 October 1950 (1950-10-11)

Running time

87 minutesCountryCzechoslovakiaLanguageCzech

Prince Bayaya (Czech: Bajaja) is a 1950 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka.

Plot

Poor half-orphan Bayaya is attracted by a call one day. He is called by his deceased mother who is experiencing her purgatory transformed into a white horse. She convinces Baya to go on a journey with her. Next steps lead them to a kingdom where three princesses are waiting to be sacrificed to dragons. Bayaya defeats all three dragons and chooses his future wife among the princesses. But at his mother's request, he must not reveal that he is the hero who saved the princesses. However, after a series of further disappointments, he gets a well-deserved happy ending.

Animation

Břetislav Pojar - Bayaya
Jan Karpaš - Princesses
Bohuslav Šrámek - Grooms and Knights
Zdeněk Hrabě - King
Stanislav Látal - Jester
František Braun - Armorers

Awards

1954 Locarno International Film Festival^[1]

Won: Golden Leopard

References

^ "Winners of the Golden Leopard". Locarno International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 19 July 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

External links

Bajaja at IMDb

Films directed by Jiří Trnka

Springman and the SS
The Czech Year
The Emperor's Nightingale
Prince Bayaya
Old Czech Legends
The Good Soldier Schweik
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Cybernetic Grandma
The Hand

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