Ferdy the Ant
2016 · 42m · Animation · Family
A film programme with 5 animated short films Hermína Týrlová : Ferda The Ant In The Foreign Service, The Mischievous Boy, Devilish Tricks, Corral Tale, I Count On The Wire. Hermína Týrlová, the first woman director of Czech animation, had the talent to know how to give life to all the materials that came to hand: balls of wool, handkerchiefs, toys, fabrics ... Her cinematographic work has been rewarded numerous times. Films without language, intertitles narrated in french.
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