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Mr. Prokouk

Series of Czech puppet stop motion films by Karel Zeman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Mr. Prokouk (Czech: Pan Prokouk) is a character created by Karel Zeman for a series of Czech animated short films in the 1940s and 1950s.

Prokouk, a stop-motion animation puppet made of wood,[1] is a sympathetic, irrepressible everyman character[2] with a bristling mustache, a long nose,[3] and a pork pie hat.[4] The French newspaper Le Monde described the character as an "animated cousin" of Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot,[5] and the catalogue of a 2001 Karel Zeman retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive suggested that Prokouk might be taken as Zeman's alter ego.[4] The short films in which he appears are comic[6] with a didactic touch.[1]

The character first appeared in the 1946 short Podkova pro štěstí ("Horseshoe for Luck").[5][7]

Prokouk became the most well-known character in Czech animated cinema[8] and a familiar figure in Czech culture.[1][5] The films were especially popular with young audiences.[9]

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Filmography

The following table is based on information from the Karel Zeman Museum's filmography.[7]

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